A Novel RFID-Based Anti-Counterfeiting Scheme for Retail Environments

Abstract

Product counterfeiting and theft are ongoing problems in supply chains and retail environments, but not a lot of work has been done to address these problems through the cost-effective use of auto-identification technologies such as bar-codes, near-field communication (NFC), or radio-frequency identification (RFID). In this paper, we propose an RFID-based anti-counterfeiting and anti-theft scheme that can be used to detect counterfeit items at the point of purchase by a consumer. The proposed system is lightweight and suited for deployment in large-scale retail environments using low-cost passive tags. We also undertake an analysis of a recent scheme proposed by Tran and Hong to highlight some of the weaknesses of their scheme. A detailed security analysis of the proposed scheme shows that it satisfies the formal requirements of security correctness and is resistant to compromise through security attacks.

A New Secure RFID Anti-Counterfeiting and Anti-Theft Scheme for Merchandise

“…This was not the first work which the authors produced in the field of RFID tag security as they had previously researched the topic and proposed a secure method of authentication in Reference [18][19][20] and Reference [21]. In addition, we proposed a framework to prevent counterfeiting in Reference [3]; this was not the first work of its kind as recent system proposed by Reference [15] consists of a tag authentication protocol, which has four key players: the RFID tag, the reader, the server and the seller; and the database correction protocol, which has two players: the seller and the server. The first protocol authenticates the tags without revealing their sensitive information and allows the customer to inquire whether the tag is genuine or not; while the database correction protocol guarantees the correctness of the tag status.…”

“…Therefore, in general, we can say that our main contribution in this research paper is a secure anti-counterfeiting and anti-theft protocol that requires less resources and less complicated operations, which results in easy troubleshooting and updates in case of an error. Moreover, we will provide a formal security analysis at the end for the proposed protocol on the basis of the strand space method to prove that the proposed protocol is secure [3]. The rest of this paper is organised as follows: in the next section, we elaborate on the existing technologies that address the considered issues and the different methods used by previous researchers.…”

A New Secure RFID Anti-Counterfeiting and Anti-theft Scheme for Merchandise

“…While every year, counterfeit goods account for 7RFID tag counterfeiting can be defined as creating a replica of a tag by either replicating the hardware component of a tag or by copying its software in such a way that the genuine reader, database, or users would not know the difference between the genuine tag and the replicated one. Recently, we proposed a framework to prevent counterfeiting [3]; this was not the first work as one of the recent novels was a system proposed by [4] and consists of a tag authentication protocol, which has four key players, namely the RFID tag, the reader, the server, and the seller, and the database correction protocol, which has two players, namely the seller and the server. The first protocol authenticates the tags without revealing their sensitive information and allows the customer to inquire whether the tag is genuine or not.…”

“…Therefore, in general, we can say that our main contribution in this research paper is the secure anti-counterfeiting and anti-theft protocol that requires less recourse and less complicated operations, which will result in easy troubleshooting and update in case of an error. Moreover, we will provide a formal security analysis at the end for the proposed protocol on the basis of the strand space method to prove that the proposed protocol is secure [3]. The rest of this paper is organised as follows: In the next section, we elaborate on the existing technologies that address the considered issues and the different methods used by previous researchers.…”

An Extended Re-selling Protocol For Existing Anti-Counterfeiting Schemes

“…[1] A number of researchers have proposed methods to address 5 these problems, including track and trace methods and physically unclonable function (PUF)-based methods; however, the existing methods do not provide a sufficiently integrated solution to address the counterfeiting problem in a retail environment. Many researcher address RFID based product anti-counterfeiting by proposing protocols or schemes to address this issue such as [2], [3] and [4].…”