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International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS)

An Efficient Mutual Authentication Protocol for RFID Systems

Iuon‐Chang Lin, Rui-Kun Luo, Shih-Chang Tsao

Published Jan 1, 2009• 4 citations
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Abstract

After the worldpsilas largest retailer, Wal-Mart, has implemented RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), the global suppliers are actively devoted to EPC (Electronic Product Code) research and development. Since RFID has advantages of a long life, safe, and free from environmental constraints, RFID EPC can achieve benefits such as saving manpower costs, expressing logistics management, reducing man-made orders, and decreasing excess inventory. The paper is to explore the security issues of the RFID EPC Class 1 Generation 2. RFID transmits information wirelessly, and therefore information can be captured. In order to protect data privacy, many scholars have proposed their own ways to improve. This paper has extended the scheme of Duc et al., and made a more efficient version.

DOI
10.1109/his.2009.221

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After the worldpsilas largest retailer, Wal-Mart, has implemented RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), the global suppliers are actively devoted to EPC (Electronic Product Code) research and development. Since RFID has advantages of a long life, safe, and free from environmental constraints, RFID EPC can achieve benefits such as saving manpower costs, expressing logistics management, reducing man-made orders, and decreasing excess inventory. The paper is to explore the security issues of the RFID EPC Class 1 Generation 2. RFID transmits information wirelessly, and therefore information can be captured. In order to protect data privacy, many scholars have proposed their own ways to improve. This paper has extended the scheme of Duc et al., and made a more efficient version.
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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a prominent technology within the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, offering efficient and reliable object identification in various domains, including business, healthcare, and manufacturing. The security of RFID systems is of paramount importance, and recent authentication protocols have been developed to address these security concerns. In this survey paper, we explore and evaluate the latest authentication protocols designed to enhance security in RFID communications, primarily concentrating on the interaction between RFID readers and tags. We critically assess contemporary lightweight RFID authentication protocols, considering aspects such as security requirements, computational efficiency, and resilience against potential attacks. However, with the advent of quantum computing, these protocols are under scrutiny for their vulnerability. As a result, we emphasize the need for researchers to shift their focus toward post-quantum cryptography solutions to bolster the security of RFID systems. This paper serves as a comprehensive overview of recent developments in RFID authentication, shedding light on the pressing need for quantum-resistant security measures in this field.
In order to solve the weakness in security and privacy and the poor performance of the existing RFID authentication protocols,a Hash-based mutual authentication protocol for RFID is proposed and its security is proved by using the provable security model,with the privacy and security features of the proposed protocol analyzed.Compared with several RFID authentication protocols with the similar structure,the proposed protocol can effectively solve the privacy and security issues of the RFID system and has significant performance advantages,because it greatly reduces the amount of storage and computation of tags,and particularly improves the search efficiency of the server database.
In 2006, Lee and Ahn proposed a matrix-based RFID authentication protocol which eliminates the security problems in HB and RFID authentication protocols. Their proposed protocol provides the following three merits: (1) it reduces the computational costs of the RFID tag. (2) it reduces the communication overhead between the reader and the tag. (3) it protects the user privacy. However, this paper points out that Lee and Ahn's proposed protocol is insecure to various attacks because it does not provide mutual authentication which the RFID tag does not authenticate the legality of the RFID reader unlike their claims. In addition, this paper proposes an improved matrix-based RFID mutual authentication protocol that can provide the mutual authentication. As a result, the proposed protocol not only can provide strong security and but also guarantee high efficiency because it reduces the communication rounds compare with Lee-Ahn's protocol.
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본 논문에서는 데이터베이스, 리더 그리고 태그 간의 모든 통신 채널이 안전하지 않은 비보호 채널(insecure channel)임을 가정하여 비보호 채널상의 안전한 RFID 상호인증 프로토콜을 제안했다. 제안한 프로토콜은 안전한 단방향 해쉬함수를 사용했고, DB에서 태그 ID를 검색하는데 걸리는 시간과 해쉬 연산량의 부담을 개선하는 것이 목적이다. 또한, RFID 상호인증 프로토콜이 보장해야 할 기본적인 보안사항들뿐만 아니라 전방향 안전성(Forward Security)도 함께 제공하며, 태그에서 난수를 생성하지 않음으로써, 태그에서의 처리량의 부담을 줄이고자 한다. In this paper, we proposed a new secure RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification) mutual authentication protocol on insecure communication channel which assumed that all communication channels between the database, the reader and the tag are insecure communication channels. The proposed protocol used a secure one-way hash function and the goal is to improve search time of a tag ID and overload of hash calculational load in DB. In addition, the proposed protocol supports not only basic security requirements to be provided by RFID mutual authentication protocol but also forward secrecy, and the tag does not generate a random number to reduce overload of processing capacity in it.