Secret-sharing based secure communication protocols for passive RFIDs

Harsh Kapoor, Dijiang Huang

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4 Scopus citations

Abstract

With increase in applicability of RFID technology, there is ever growing demand for security. The popularity of RFID applicability lies in its ability for automatic identification and low-cost of RFID tags. Most of the recent security protocols for RFID technology are based on cryptographic hash-based function which currently cannot be implemented on low-cost RFID tags. In this paper, we present a lightweight protocol based on key transportation and authentication using threshold secret sharing scheme which provides strong security on low-cost RFID tags without the need to connect to the backend server. Our solution is based on an asymmetric computation strategy allocating mathematical operations such as modular addition and XOR on passive RFID tags and move the computational complexity to the RFID interrogators. We believe a secure protocol on low-cost RFID tags would make RFID technology ubiquitous.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationGLOBECOM 2009 - 2009 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2009
Event2009 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM 2009 - Honolulu, HI, United States
Duration: Nov 30 2009Dec 4 2009

Publication series

NameGLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Other

Other2009 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHonolulu, HI
Period11/30/0912/4/09

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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