Analysis of OPACITY and PLAID Protocols for Contactless Smart Cards

Abstract

There is an increasing use of contactless smart card technology for identification, access control, and financial transactions due to its numerous advantages. However, there is also an increasing number of attacks that exploit the insecure contactless communications in order to gain unauthorized access to personal and sensitive information for illegitimate use. Open Protocol for Access Control Identification and Ticketing with privacY (OPACITY) and Protocol for Lightweight Authentication of Identity (PLAID) are two privacy-enhanced protocols that enable secure contactless communications to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of contactless smart card information and transactions. This thesis will examine and analyze the principle mechanisms behind OPACITY and PLAID protocols to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the protocols, as well as to benchmark the performance of the protocols against each other.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA570842

Entities

People

  • Koh H. Kiat
  • Lee Y. Run

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Authentication
  • Biometric Security
  • Classified Materials
  • Coding
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Programming
  • Control Systems
  • Cryptography
  • Cybersecurity
  • Entry Control Systems
  • Identification
  • Information Processing
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • Reliability
  • Secure Communications
  • Security Protocols

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Cybersecurity.
  • Database Systems and Applications