Description:
This dissertation tackles the problem of user privacy and security of transactions in the authentication protocols of the technology of Radio-frequency identification (RFID). Radio-frequency identification is ubiquitously used for automatic identification of objects over the distance. Numerous applications include access control using contactless ID cards, contactless payments in the public transportation, payments using contactless credit cards, toll payments, etc. To identify an item, RFID tags are used. In several other applications, mostly for automatic checkout and fraud control, tags ...