Abstract
The RFID tags only have limited computing and memory resources. This makes it difficult to solve their security and privacy problems. Authentication is considered as an effective approach to protect the security and privacy of RFID systems. Based on Hash function and the randomization of the tag’s identifier, a lightweight authentication protocol is proposed. The protocol uses Hash function to ensure the anonymity and confidentiality of the RFID system. It uses a randomization function to randomize the tag’s identifier to enhance the difficulty to reveal the secrecy of the RFID system. Time stamp and pseudorandom number generator are combined to prevent replay attack. It also completes the strong authentication of the backend server to the tag by twice authentication. The analysis shows that this protocol provides forward security and it can prevent eavesdropping, tracing, replay and de-synchronize attack. The protocol only uses Hash function and pseudorandom number generator. It is very suitable to the low-cost RFID system.
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We are appreciated to anonymous reviewers for their constructive suggestion to this paper. The relative work about this paper is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61272097).
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Shi, Z., Wu, F., Wang, C., Ren, S. (2016). A Lightweight RFID Authentication Protocol with Forward Security and Randomized Identifier. In: Wang, G., Ray, I., Alcaraz Calero, J., Thampi, S. (eds) Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage. SpaCCS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10066. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49148-6_1
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