SBIR Phase I: Security Solutions for UHF passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags

这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目调查了在制药行业的无源UHF RFID标签中实施强公钥加密的可行性。 制药行业每年因药品假冒和分歧而造成的损失超过400亿美元，直接威胁到患者的安全。FDA正在敦促行业采用RFID技术来减轻这些威胁，但如果标签上的数据安全性无法得到保证，则仍然存在很大的风险。由于缺乏板载安全性，今天的标签不能保护用户免受未经授权的阅读、复制或跟踪。 SecureRF开发了一种安全协议，它比任何其他加密函数都要小数千倍，速度也要快数千倍。第1阶段的预期结果是确定在无源EPCglobal Gen 2 UHF RFID标签中实施此协议的可行性。必须保护药品不受伪造和盗窃的影响，这会影响公共安全并推高消费者药品价格。如果没有安全性，FDA建议使用RFID标签可能会带来新的社会威胁，包括HIPAA下的患者隐私问题。 该项目的额外商业价值将来自高价值资产跟踪、非接触式支付系统、国防和国土安全（包括边境安全）以及近场通信。RFID市场估计为15 - 20亿美元，预计到2015年将增长到269亿美元左右。 如果成功，将开发一种新的低占用量认证协议来解决这些商业机会。

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project investigates the feasibility of implementing strong public key cryptography within passive UHF RFID tags for the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical industry incurs over $40B in annual losses due to drug counterfeiting and divergence which directly threatens patient safety. The FDA is urging the industry to adopt RFID technology to mitigate these threats but a large exposure remains if the security of the data on the tag can not be ensured. Today's tags cannot protect the user from unauthorized reading, copying, or tracking due to the lack of onboard security. SecureRF has developed a security protocol which is thousands of times smaller and faster than any other cryptographic function. The anticipated result of Phase 1 is to determine the feasibility of implementing this protocol within passive EPCglobal Gen 2 UHF RFID tags. Pharmaceuticals must be protected from counterfeiting and theft which impacts public safety and drives up consumer drug prices. Without security, the FDA recommended use of RFID tags could introduce new societal threats including patient privacy concerns under HIPAA. Additional commercial value from this project will come from high value asset tracking, contactless payment systems, Defense and Homeland Security including border security, and Near Field Communications. The RFID market is estimated at $1.5-2.0 billion with a projected growth to around $26.9 billion in 2015. If successful, a new low-footprint authentication protocol to address these commercial opportunities will be developed.