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Addressing Relay Attacks Without Distance-Bounding in RFID Tag Inclusion/Exclusion Scenarios

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With the widespread adoption and use of RFID tags, a valid scenario is one in which an RFID-tagged object includes several components that each have their own individual RFID tags. Under such a context, each of the components are bound to be included in or excluded from the main object over its lifetime. In order for only the tags that are a part of the main object to be authenticated by the main object, there is a need for a secure protocol that ensures that no other tag has access to the shared secrets among the main object and the component objects. Moreover, there is also a need to address relay attacks by adversaries under such scenarios. Existing authentication protocols address relay attacks through round-trip distance measurements in such inclusion/exclusion scenarios. While this works in principle, distance-bounding approaches are not always reliable. We consider another approach for inclusion/exclusion scenarios and develop a protocol sketch for this context. We also provide related security analysis.

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  1. Information Systems and Operations Management, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611-7169, USA

    Selwyn Piramuthu

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  1. Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala, India

    Sabu M. Thampi

  2. Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Oge Marques

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Sri Krishnan

  4. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Kuan-Ching Li

  5. University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Domenico Ciuonzo

  6. Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India

    Maheshkumar H. Kolekar

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Piramuthu, S. (2019). Addressing Relay Attacks Without Distance-Bounding in RFID Tag Inclusion/Exclusion Scenarios. In: Thampi, S., Marques, O., Krishnan, S., Li, KC., Ciuonzo, D., Kolekar, M. (eds) Advances in Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems. SIRS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 968. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5758-9_13

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