Towards practical identification of HF RFID devices

ACM Transactions on Information and System Security

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Danev, Boris ^a   Capkun, Srdjan ^a   Jayaram Masti, Ramya ^a   Benjamin, Thomas S ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Cryptocracy LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Identification; Physical layer; RFID; Security

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL EQUALIZATION; FINGERPRINT EXTRACTIONS; FINGERPRINT QUALITIES; PHYSICAL COMMUNICATIONS; PHYSICAL LAYERS; SECURITY; SECURITY AND PRIVACY; SECURITY IMPLICATIONS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); NETWORK LAYERS; SMART CARDS;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 84872114018     PISSN: 10949224     EISSN: 15577406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2240276.2240278     Document Type: Article

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