Security challenges for RFID key applications

RFID technology is an emerging market with a wide spectrum of application domain s. The introduction of RFID systems in industrial manufacturing has already been taken up more than ten years ago. Currently RFID tags are appearing in public e nvironments like ticketing applications and retail supply chains. One the one ha nd mass ap-plications will imply a break-through for RFID technologies, on the o ther hand new security issues have to be addressed in order to obtain an add-on benefit compared to classical barcode applications. In this contribution we addr ess RFID security issues in general and related to selected application scenario s. At first we introduce basic RFID security requirements. Subsequently applicat ion oriented security measures are discussed for three application scenarios: au tomotive production, retail supply chains and anti-counterfeiting for pharmaceut ical products. Finally challenges and perspectives for future improvements of se curity measures in RFID systems and privacy issues will be outlined.