Design and Implementation of Secure Active RFID System with Cyptography and Authentication Mechanisms

In this paper, an active RFID system integrated public key encryption, embedded computation, and wireless communication technology that is implemented with cryptography and authentication mechanisms. In the system, a secure RFID Tag intermittently transmits cipher text to a RFID Reader which then transmits to a back-end platform to perform data comparison for authentication. Besides, the digital signature scheme-Tame Transformation Signatures (TTS) is used in the system to protect the plain text. There are two major features in the proposed RFID system. The first is to fully design and implement an active RFID system which includes active Tags and Readers. The second is to successfully implement an active RFID system with TTS cryptography and authentication mechanisms.