ISO/IEC 29167-10:2026

Information technology — Automatic identification and data capture techniques — Part 10: Crypto suite AES-128 security services for air interface communications ISO/IEC 29167-10:2026

Publication date:   Mar 6, 2026

Scope

This document specifies the crypto suite for AES-128 for the ISO/IEC 18000 air interface standards for radio frequency identification (RFID) devices.
This document specifies the security services of an AES-128 crypto suite. AES has a fixed block size of 128 bits and a key size of 128 bits, 192 bits or 256 bits. This document uses AES with a fixed key size of 128 bits and is referred to as AES-128.
This document specifies procedures for the authentication of a Tag and or an Interrogator using AES-128 and provides the following features:

Tag authentication;
Tag authentication allowing authenticated and encrypted reading of part of the Tag’s memory;
Interrogator authentication;
Interrogator authentication allowing authenticated and encrypted writing of part of the Tag’s memory;
Mutual authentication.

In this document, a Tag and an Interrogator can support one, a subset, or all of the specified options, clearly stating what is supported.