Secure RFID Identification and Authentication with Triggered Hash Chain Variants

TSensors Vision, Infrastructure and Security Challenges in Trillion Sensor Era

“…For instance, the protocol proposed by Henrici et al maintains a session number to synchronize the tag and the reader which can be easily manipulated by a malicious attacker by interrogating the tag in a middle step of the authentication process, and thus desynchronizing the tag and the reader [49]. In Lim et al's protocol, total number of authentication session requests are limited which makes it vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks [58]. In the protocol proposed by Tan et al, the tag returns a static form of data based on its ID and a secret which can be utilized to track the tag by any adversaries.…”

“…Most RFID researchers believe that the industry requires simple and low cost RFID tags with limited number of logic gates which reduces the cryptographic capability of such devices [20,51]. Several light-weight RFID protocols have been proposed and [32,49,54,58,82,83,88] are just to name a few. Most of these protocols utilize cryptographic hash functions, random number generators, and XOR functions which are light-weight solutions compared to other computationally expensive symmetric key and public key cryptographic primitives.…”

“…Lim et al proposed a protocol where the reader and the RFID tag, both use random number generators, hash functions, and XOR primitives to authenticate each other [58]. Tan et al proposed a server-less authentication protocol that also utilizes a known hash function between the reader and the tags, and XOR primitives.…”

Cryptanalysis of Sulma, An Ultralightweight Mutual Authentication Protocol for Low-Cost RFID Tags

“…Most researchers believe that to replace namely the barcodes by RFID the industry needs simple and low cost RFID tags (below 5 cents per item) which puts a restriction on the number of logical gates [8,9]. For this case, many approaches that are based on the lightweight cryptographic solutions and protocols have been suggested [10][11][12][13][14][15]. On the other hand, Some RFID researchers, however, believe that it would be possible to use complex cryptographic primitives in future RFID tags.…”

“…Hence, lightweight protocols have been of interest to both industry and academia and design of secure authentication protocols for low-cost RFID tags has received the attention of a lot of researchers, though many protocols have been published lately [5,6,[10][11][12][13][14]19,20]. However, most of them have not satisfied the claimed security goals [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28].…”