A Survey of RFID Authentication Protocols Based on Hash-Chain Method

Security and privacy are the inherent problems in RFID communications. There are several protocols have been proposed to overcome those problems. Hash chain is commonly employed by the protocols to improve security and privacy for RFID authentication. Although the protocols able to provide specific solution for RFID security and privacy problems, they fail to provide integrated solution. This article is a survey to closely observe those protocols in terms of its focus and limitations.Comment: Third ICCIT 2008 International Conference on Convergence and Hybrid Information Technolog

Tag Ownership Transfer in Radio Frequency Identification Systems: A Survey of Existing Protocols and Open Challenges

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a modern approach to identify and track several assets at once in a supply chain environment. In many RFID applications, tagged items are frequently transferred from one owner to another. Thus, there is a need for secure ownership transfer (OT) protocols that can perform the transfer while, at the same time, protect the privacy of owners. Several protocols have been proposed in an attempt to fulfill this requirement. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive and systematic review of the RFID OT protocols that appeared over the years of 2005-2018. In addition, we compare these protocols based on the security goals which involve their support of OT properties and their resistance to attacks. From the presented comparison, we draw attention to the open issues in this field and provide suggestions for the direction that future research should follow. Furthermore, we suggest a set of guidelines to be considered in the design of new protocols. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive survey that reviews the available OT protocols from the early start up to the current state of the art

Cryptanalysis of a new ultralightweight RFID authentication protocol—SASI

Since RFID tags are ubiquitous and at times even oblivious to the human user, all modern RFID protocols are designed to resist tracking so that the location privacy of the human RFID user is not violated. Another design criterion for RFIDs is the low computational effort required for tags, in view that most tags are passive devices that derive power from an RFID reader’s signals. Along this vein, a class of ultralightweight RFID authentication protocols has been designed, which uses only the most basic bitwise and arithmetic operations like exclusive- OR, OR, addition, rotation, and so forth. In this paper, we analyze the security of the SASI protocol, a recently proposed ultralightweight RFID protocol with better claimed security than earlier protocols. We show that SASI does not achieve resistance to tracking, which is one of its design objectives

On the Improper Use of CRC for Cryptographic Purposes in RFID Mutual Authentication Protocols

Mutual authentication is essential to guarantee the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of an RFID system. One area of interest is the design of lightweight mutual authentication protocols that meet the limited computational and energy resources of the tags. These protocols use simple operations such as permutation and cyclic redundancy code for cryptographic purposes. However, these functions are cryptographically weak and are easily broken. In this work, we present a case against the use of these functions for cryptographic purposes, due to their simplicity and linear properties, by analyzing the LPCP protocol. We evaluate the claims of the LPCP resistance to de-synchronization and full disclosure attacks and show that the protocol is weak and can be easily broken by eavesdropping on a few mutual authentication sessions. This  weakness stems from the functions themselves as well as the improper use of inputs to these functions. We further offer suggestions that would help in designing more secure protocols

Efficient RFID authentication scheme for supply chain applications

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been widely used in supply chains to track and manage shipments. By tagging shipments with RFID tags, which can be remotely accessed by RFID readers, shipments can be identified and tracked in a supply chain. Security issues in RFID have been major concerns, since passive RFID tags have very weak computational power to support authentication. Sound authentication between tag and reader remains a challenging problem. In this paper, we provide a novel authentication scheme to protect tags from being tracked and identified by unauthorized readers and protect authorized readers against bogus tags. Our scheme can be applied to supply chain security. It also exhibits an additional feature that a supply chain can be dynamically updated

Efficient Security of RFID Devices using HECC Algorithms and Performance Analysis by Simulation

RFID technology is able to be established in the most meadow of our daily life, e.g. personal identification, supply-chain manage­ment, access control etc. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is the devices which contain tag and reader which communicated wireless through radio waves.  Hence security of data is most important so that any other unauthorized person cannot be access it. even though there are various method implemented for the protection of data during wireless communication which provides security from different attacks such as DoS, replay, mutual authentication etc. but these techniques are consume large amount of storage space and computation time Here in this paper we proposed a Hyper Elliptic Curve Cryptography (HECC) which provides security from different attacks. Our comprehensive result shows that proposed method is better in conditions of storage space and computation time. Keywords: RFID, HECC, Privacy and Security, Tag, Reader