Securing RFID Systems by Detecting Tag Cloning

Lehtonen, Mikko; Ostojic, Daniel; Ilic, Alexander; Michahelles, Florian

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01516-8_20

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“…Lehtonen et al [7] proposed a synchronized secrets method, which uses tag's rewritable memory. The random number in a tag is changed every time the tag is used.…”

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“…Mutual authentication between legitimate tag and server has been widely proposed by researchers [2,7,8,15,16]. Lehtonen et al [7] proposed a synchronized secrets method, which uses tag's rewritable memory.…”

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“…As a countermeasure to the privacy and security issues being faced by EPC tags, prevention and detection are two strategies that could be used to solve these problems [7]. In term of prevention, the security of EPC tags could be strengthened by using lightweight cryptographic algorithm [8] (i.e., CRC, PRNG, and XOR functions).…”

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Security Problems in an RFID System

Khor

Ismail

Younis

et al. 2010

Wireless Pers Commun

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This paper focuses on the security and privacy threats being faced by the lowcost RFID communication system, the most challenging of which relate to eavesdropping, impersonation, and tag cloning problems. The security issues can be improved and solved by utilizing both prevention and detection strategies. Prevention technique is needed since it offers resistance capabilities toward eavesdroppers and impersonators. Detection technique is vital to minimize the negative effects of tag cloning threats. This paper proposes the use of both prevention and detection techniques to make RFID communication more secure. Lightweight cryptographic algorithm, which conforms to the EPC Class-1 Generation-2 standard, is used in the proposed mutual authentication protocol for RFID system to raise security levels. In addition, electronic fingerprinting system is deployed in the proposed solution as a detection method to distinguish counterfeit and legitimate tags.

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“…Lehtonen et al [7] proposed a synchronized secrets method, which uses tag's rewritable memory. The random number in a tag is changed every time the tag is used.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Security Problems in an RFID System

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Ismail

Younis

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Wireless Pers Commun

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“…The fundamental difficulties of such an approach revolve around the trade-off between tag cost, level of security, and hardware functionalities. As a matter of fact, RFID tags are typically deployed in great amount and the end-user companies have a strong financial incentive to minimize the tag cost and, thus, the features the tags provide (Lehtonen et al, 2009). As a result, it is extremely difficult to use cryptography for protecting low cost tags from cloning, due to their limited power, storage and processing resources.…”

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A Knowledge-Based Approach for Detecting Misuses in RFID Systems

Vecchia¹,

Esposito²

2011

Designing and Deploying RFID Applications

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“…Protocols in [6], [10]- [12] focus solely on RFID-enabled supply chains; they collect IDs from supply chain partners and detect the cloning attack when an ID simultaneously shows up at different places. Protocols in [4], [13], [14] write a new random number on a tag's memory each time the tag is scanned and maintain a map of tag IDs and corresponding random numbers. These protocols collect both tag IDs and random numbers from tags.…”

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Toward Fast and Deterministic Clone Detection for Large Anonymous RFID Systems

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2014 IEEE 11th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems

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Cloning attacks seriously impede the security of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) applications. In this paper, we tackle deterministic clone detection for anonymous RFID systems without tag identifiers (IDs) as a priori. Existing clone detection protocols either cannot apply to anonymous RFID systems due to necessitating the knowledge of tag IDs or achieve only probabilistic detection with a few clones tolerated. We propose two protocols, BASE and DeClone, toward fast and deterministic clone detection for large anonymous RFID systems. BASE leverages the observation that clone tags make tag cardinality exceed ID cardinality. DeClone is built on a recent finding that clone tags cause collisions that are hardly reconciled through rearbitration. For DeClone to achieve detection certainty, we design breadth first tree traversal toward quickly verifying unreconciled collisions and hence the cloning attack. We validate their detection performance through analysis and simulation. The results show that BASE delivers faster detection for small systems while DeClone for large ones especially when clone ratio increases.

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Securing RFID Systems by Detecting Tag Cloning

Cited by 61 publications

References 16 publications

Security Problems in an RFID System

Security Problems in an RFID System

A Knowledge-Based Approach for Detecting Misuses in RFID Systems

Toward Fast and Deterministic Clone Detection for Large Anonymous RFID Systems

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