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Towards a Model for Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things Saˇsa Radomirovi´c Laboratory of Algorithmics, Cryptology and Security University of Luxembourg Luxembourg Email: sasa.radomirovic@uni.lu Abstract—We propose and give a high-level, work-in-progress place, this will lead to yet another source of information about description of a model which will allow us to reason about our movements, health, and habits. security and privacy of communication protocols in the Internet Perhaps even more significantly, unexpected functionalities of Things and identify the next steps necessary towards a complete formal model. and security flaws are almost certain to exist in some sensors, The model is built up from a few basic assumptions and RFID readers, and RFID tags. Several such vulnerabilities are observations on likely threats to security and privacy and with likely to remain unnoticed or uninteresting for a long time, a focus on the latter. because the context necessary in order to exploit them will not We argue that from a security and privacy perspective, the be present yet. We have seen such a development in the present Internet of Things is to be considered as a fusion of an operating system and a network. Internet already. The importance of security flaws in operating systems has only be