TY - GEN
T1 - Towards lightweight secure communication protocols for passive RFIDs
AU - Huang, Dijiang
AU - Kapoor, Harsh
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - RFID technology has been applied to many business applications in the past few years. The popularity of RFID technology lies in its ability for automatic identification and low cost. Most existing RFID security protocols utilize cryptography based solutions relying on hash functions and symmetric-key based encryptions, which incur high computational overhead and thus are unsuitable for passive RFID tags. In this paper, we present a lightweight secure reader-tag communication protocol providing secure key lookup, key transportation, reader-tag mutual authentication, and data confidentiality without using traditional cryptography based encryption and hash functions. Our approach is based on light-weight exclusive-or (XOR) onetime pad and modulo addition on passive RFID tags and readers. Our security and performance analysis shows that the proposed solutions are suitable for low-power passive RFID tags.
AB - RFID technology has been applied to many business applications in the past few years. The popularity of RFID technology lies in its ability for automatic identification and low cost. Most existing RFID security protocols utilize cryptography based solutions relying on hash functions and symmetric-key based encryptions, which incur high computational overhead and thus are unsuitable for passive RFID tags. In this paper, we present a lightweight secure reader-tag communication protocol providing secure key lookup, key transportation, reader-tag mutual authentication, and data confidentiality without using traditional cryptography based encryption and hash functions. Our approach is based on light-weight exclusive-or (XOR) onetime pad and modulo addition on passive RFID tags and readers. Our security and performance analysis shows that the proposed solutions are suitable for low-power passive RFID tags.
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U2 - 10.1109/SAHCN.2009.5168980
DO - 10.1109/SAHCN.2009.5168980
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70449591886
SN - 9781424429080
T3 - 2009 6th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON 2009
BT - 2009 6th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON 2009
T2 - 6th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON 2009
Y2 - 22 June 2009 through 26 June 2009
ER -