Group‐based key array authentication protocol in radio frequency identification systems

Abstract

For the purposes of information security and privacy between readers and tags, identity authentication is a significant issue for radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. In this study, the authors propose a novel security group-based key array authentication protocol, which is suitable for a large scale RFID environment. Based on a key array, this protocol can generate an authentication key for each pair of reader and tag with lower storage. Adding an identifier update phase, they design the authentication process passing the formal analysis from GNY. The security and performance analysis results show that the protocol they present can achieve better security than previous protocols in resisting external and internal attacks, with lower storage and acceptable communication and computation load.

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“…The lightweight protocols mainly use cyclic redundancy code (CRC) operator, message authentication code (MAC), and hash function to realize identity authentication [8][9][10][11]. The middleweight protocols introduce the fullfledged symmetric/asymmetric encryption [e.g., elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)] for the applications with higher security requirements (e.g., finance, and military) [12][13][14][15]. However, several complicated protocols may be limited by the tag hardware requirements such as power consumption, storage space, and computational capacity.…”

A lightweight inter-zonal authentication protocol for moving objects in low powered RF systems

“…Security solutions for RF systems can be classified by the weight of cryptographic primitives used-Middle-weight, light-weight and ultra-lightweight solutions. Middleweight solutions [22], [23] for applications with higher security requirements such as finance, and military) use full symmetric/asymmetric encryption (e.g., elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)). Lightweight solutions use operations and functions such as cyclic redundancy code (CRC) operator, message authentication code (MAC) and hash function.…”