A secure EPC C1 gen 2 RFID system for product anti-counterfeiting

假冒是许多行业中最重要的损失来源之一，包括食品和饮料，制药，消费电子，医疗设备，零售和IT部门。品牌所有者正在寻找新技术来保护他们的供应链，并追溯假冒产品的来源。射频识别（RFID）系统已成为打击假冒产品的一个有前途的解决方案，因为它能够自动识别物体并补充传统的防伪方法。低成本EPC C1 Gen 2 RFID系统为供应链管理提供了一个有效的解决方案。然而，由于缺乏相应的安全和隐私保护机制，低成本的EPC C1 Gen 2标签容易被克隆，用户隐私信息容易泄露，限制了其在产品防伪中的应用。该项目旨在设计和构建一个安全的EPC C1 Gen 2 RFID系统的概念验证原型，该系统基于轻量级流密码WG-8以及滑铁卢大学开发的一套隐私保护安全协议。由此产生的安全EPC C1 Gen 2 RFID系统预计将部署在多个行业领域，使品牌所有者能够以安全和隐私保护的方式跟踪和追踪其供应链并检测假冒产品。该原型的实现对于基于安全EPC C1 Gen 2 RFID系统的防伪技术的商业化和产生投资者的兴趣至关重要。

Counterfeiting is one of the most significant sources of loss in many industries including food and beverage, pharmaceutical, consumer electronics, medical devices, retail, and IT sectors. Brand owners is looking for new technologies protecting their supply chains and tracing back the origin of counterfeit products. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system has emerged as a promising solution to combating counterfeit products since it enables automatic object identification and complements the traditional anti-counterfeiting methods. Low-cost EPC C1 Gen2 RFID system provides an efficient solution for supply chain management. However, due to the lack of appropriate security and privacy protection mechanisms, low-cost EPC C1 Gen2 tags can be cloned and user's private information can be leaked, which restrict their usage for product anti-counterfeiting currently. The proposed project aims to design and build a proof-of-concept prototype of a secure EPC C1 Gen2 RFID system based on a lightweight stream cipher WG-8 as well as a suite of privacy-preserving security protocols developed at the University of Waterloo. The resulting secure EPC C1 Gen2 RFID system is expected to be deployed in multiple industry sectors and enable brand owners to track-and-trace their supply chains and detect counterfeit products in a secure and privacy-preserving manner. The prototype implementation will be critical for commercializing the anti-counterfeiting technology based on secure EPC C1 Gen2 RFID systems and generating investor interests.