RFID Electronic Visa with Personalized Verification

      Przemyslaw Blaskiewicz, Jacek Cichon, Miroslaw Kutylowski and Krzysztof Majcher
                        Wroclaw University of Technology

The paper presents  a new approach for systems with electronic identification 
documents  equipped with simple RFID tags.  We assume that document verification 
is performed offline, but the number of document verifiers as well as the number 
of documents is controlled by the document issuer. The primary application in mind 
are visas on a paper sticker with an RFID circuit. We also aim to provide simple  
solutions based on paper stickers with simple RFID for club cards, customer ID cards, 
public transportation multi-usage tickets, soccer game tickets, etc..

With this application in mind, we consider a model in which a document verifier might 
leak all verification information  to a third party. This MUST NOT lead to possibility 
of forging RFID identification documents. Moreover, verification process should support 
privacy and provide no transferable proof of presence of a given person at a given place
 and time. 

Designing a system with such properties is possible with asymmetric cryptography 
implemented by identity documents. We present a lightweight solution, such that the document
is  hard to clone without physical access, verification can be performed by entitled agents
only and  without online contact to a central database. Nevertheless, hardware requirements
for RFID circuit are  relatively low. 


paper accepted for RFIDsec Asia 2011, Wuxi

supported by  Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, project N N206 369839, 
and by Foundation for Polish Science, ``Mistrz'' Programme