This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th Workshop on RFID Security and Privacy, RFIDsec 2013, held in Graz, Austria, in July 2013. RFIDsec deals with topics of importance to improving the security and privacy of RFID, NFC, contactless technologies, and the Internet of Things.

Deploying OSK on Low-resource Mobile Devices.- Is NFC a Better Option Instead of EPC Gen-2 in Safe Medication of Inpatients.- Rights Management with NFC Smartphones and Electronic ID Cards: A Proof of Concept for Modern Car Sharing.- Desynchronization and traceability attacks on RIPTA-DA protocol.- Long Distance Relay Attack.- On the Security of two RFID Mutual Authentication Protocols.- Dietary Recommendations for Lightweight Block Ciphers: Power, Energy and Area Analysis of Recently Developed Architectures.- An Improved Hardware Implementation of the Quark Hash Function.- Analyzing Side-Channel Leakage of RFID-Suitable Lightweight ECC Hardware.- Energy-Architecture Tuning for ECC-based RFID tags.- Speed and Size-Optimized Implementations of the PRESENT Cipher for Tiny AVR Devices.

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