Efficient ultralightweight RFID mutual authentication

Yu Chung Huang, Jehn Ruey Jiang

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Abstract

In the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) system, the communication between the reader and tags is vulnerable to attacks due to the nature of RF signals. Typical attacks include the forged-server, forged-tag, man-in-the-middle (MitM), tracking, replay, forward secrecy and denial of service (DoS) attacks. Some mutual authentication schemes/protocols have been proposed to resist these attacks. Unfortunately, these schemes still have some flaws. For example, some of them cannot resist all the above-mentioned attacks due to the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) security flaw, and others need tags to have more powerful computation ability than a normal passive one. In this paper, we propose a mutual authentication protocol conforming to the popular EPC Class 1 Generation 2 (EPC C1G2) specification to resist all the above-mentioned attacks. The proposed protocol uses only ultra lightweight operations, including CRC, to reduce computation and communication overheads without causing the CRC security flaw. We conduct security analysis for the proposed scheme and compare it with other related ones to demonstrate its superiority in terms of the communication cost, computation cost and security.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things, iThings 2014, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications, GreenCom 2014 and 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical-Social Computing, CPS 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages102-108
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781479959679
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Mar 2014
Event2014 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things, iThings 2014, Collocated with 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, CPSCom 2014 and 2014 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications, GreenCom 2014 - Taipei, Taiwan
Duration: 1 Sep 20143 Sep 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things, iThings 2014, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications, GreenCom 2014 and 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical-Social Computing, CPS 2014

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things, iThings 2014, Collocated with 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, CPSCom 2014 and 2014 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications, GreenCom 2014
Country/TerritoryTaiwan
CityTaipei
Period1/09/143/09/14

Keywords

  • Cyclic redundancy check (CRC)
  • Electronic product code (EPC)
  • Mutual authentication
  • Radio frequency identification (RFID)
  • Security

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