Efficient authentication for low-cost RFID systems

Su Mi Lee, Young Ju Hwang, Dong Hoon Lee, Jong In Lim

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Abstract

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology is expected to play a critical role in identifying articles and serving the growing need to combat counterfeiting and fraud. However, the use of RFID tags may cause privacy violation of people holding an RFID tag. The main privacy concerns are information leakage of a tag, traceabiltiy of the person and impersonation of a tag. In this paper, we study authentication as a method to protect privacy, especially for low-cost RFID systems, which have much restrictions in limited computing power, low die-size, and low power requirements. Therefore, cost effective means of authentication is needed to deal with these problems effectively. We propose an authentication protocol, LCAP, which needs only two one-way hash function operations and hence is quite efficient. Leakage of information is prevented in the scheme since a tag emits its identifier only after authentication. By refreshing a identifier of a tag in each session, the scheme also provides a location privacy and can recover lost massages from many attacks such as spoofing attacks.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)619-627
Number of pages9
JournalLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume3480
Issue numberI
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
EventInternational Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2005 - , Singapore
Duration: 2005 May 92005 May 12

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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