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

在许多行业，包括食品和饮料、制药、消费电子产品、医疗器械、零售和IT行业，假冒是最重要的损失来源之一。品牌所有者正在寻找新技术，以保护他们的供应链，并追溯假冒产品的来源。射频识别(RFID)系统实现了物体的自动识别，是传统防伪方法的补充，是一种很有前途的打击假冒产品的解决方案。低成本的EPC C1Gen2 RFID系统为供应链管理提供了有效的解决方案。然而，由于缺乏适当的安全和隐私保护机制，低成本的EPC C1Gen2标签可以被克隆，用户的私人信息可能被泄露，这限制了它们目前在产品防伪中的使用。该项目旨在设计和构建一个基于轻量级流密码WG-8和滑铁卢大学开发的一套隐私保护安全协议的安全EPC C1Gen2 RFID系统的概念验证原型。由此产生的安全EPC C1Gen2 RFID系统预计将部署在多个行业部门，使品牌所有者能够跟踪和追踪其供应链，并以安全和隐私保护的方式检测假冒产品。原型的实施对于基于安全的EPC C1Gen2 RFID系统的防伪技术的商业化和引起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.