Design and Development of a RFID Attack Simulator Device

RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification. It?s the acronym used to define a technology that make use of readers, tags, and backend servers to elaborate a system that has a variety of applications. Before implementing any system of such kind, security issues must be considered carefully since not taking care of security issues could lead to severe consequences; as some applications of this technology offers security services such as electronic passports and RFID-embedded credit cards. Safety is one of the most important issues of any communication systems, especially for wireless communication systems which use sometimes insecure wireless channel to communicate. In RFID systems, transmission of data between tags and readers or even data transmission involving readers and back-end database uses the wireless channel which is insecure. There are some risks inherent in RFID systems, such as counterfeit RFID tag attacks, reply attacks, eavesdropping attacks, etc. Therefore, ensuring the security of RFID systems is particularly important. Our paper will deal with the inherent in RFID systems and the design of a device able to simulate the attacks in order to further propose a system able to counter the simulated attacks