Secure Mechanisms for E-Ticketing System

Authors

  • Toma Cristian Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania

Keywords:

ticketing system, secure distributed system, RFID cards, cryptographic authentication, encryption

Abstract

The paper presents a secure authentication and encryption scheme for an automatic ticketing system based on symmetric and asymmetric cryptography. Some concepts and terms used in development of secure automatic ticketing system are presented. It is depicted an architecture of the secure automatic ticketing system with its components and their roles in this architecture. The section five presents the authentication and encryption scheme used for secure information from RFID cards. The authentication scheme is based on RSA and AES algorithms and it is inspired from SSL. Parts of this paper are in publishing process in [6], but the authentication and encryption scheme is described exclusivelly in this paper. The necessity of authentication and encryption scheme is given by the attack described in [7].

 

Author Biography

Toma Cristian, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania

Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics

Department of IT&C Technologies

References

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C. Toma, Security in Software Distributed Platforms, ASE Publishing House, Bucharest, 2008

C. Toma, C. Boja, M. Popa, Solution for Non-Repudiation in GSM WAP Applications, The 7th WSEAS International Conference on SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, PARALLEL and DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (SEPADS '08), Advances on Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Systems, University of Cambridge, UK, February 20-22, 2008, pp. 212 – 219

M. Popa, C. Toma, Secure Automatic Ticketing System, WSEAS International Conference on DATA, NETWORKS, COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTERS (DNCOCO '09), Baltimore, USA, November 7-9, 2009.

Gerhard de Koning Gans, Jaap-Henk Hoepman, and Flavio D. Garcia, A Practical Attack on the MIFARE Classic.

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Published

2009-12-30

How to Cite

Cristian, T. (2009). Secure Mechanisms for E-Ticketing System. Journal of Mobile, Embedded and Distributed Systems, 1(2), 81-94. Retrieved from http://www.jmeds.eu/index.php/jmeds/article/view/Secure-Mechanisms-for-E-Ticketing-System