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Near Field Communication (NFC) technology has been used more and more widely nowadays due to some undeniable interactive advantages. There are variety of NFC applications has been developed and used in business like bank transaction, public transport, commercial services, guided shopping, NFC access control and coupon. As a result, it has raised some new threats like hackers, card crimes and other privacy issues. For that reason, in this paper, we would like to contribute a method for securing NFC communication by applying a simple and lightweight cryptography algorithm. To illustrate the feasibility, we develop an NFC payment program in Android devices using lightweight encryption algorithm (LEA) and advanced encryption standard (AES) to make data confidentially. The performance of these two cryptography algorithms has been estimated and the result shows that LEA is much more advantageous than AES when applying in NFC application in which the small amount of data is saved to the card.
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Van Nguyen, H., Seo, H., Kim, H. (2014). Prospective Cryptography in NFC with the Lightweight Block Encryption Algorithm LEA. In: Dang, T.K., Wagner, R., Neuhold, E., Takizawa, M., Küng, J., Thoai, N. (eds) Future Data and Security Engineering. FDSE 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8860. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12778-1_15
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