Code-based cryptography is a very promising research area. It allows the construction
of different cryptographic mechanisms (e.g. identification protocol, public-key
cryptosystem, etc.). McEliece cryptosystem is the first code-based public-key cryptosystem;
several variants of this cryptosystem were proposed to design various security protocols
in different systems. In this paper, we present a survey on various and recent
authentication protocols in radio frequency identification systems which use diverse
variants of the McEliece cryptosystem. Moreover, we discuss the security and the performance
of each presented protocol.