A New Secure Authentication Protocol for Telecare Medicine Information System and Smart Campus

© 2013 IEEE. Telecare Medicine Information System (TMIS)'s security importance attracts a lot of attention these days. Whatever the security of TMIS improves, its application becomes wider. To address this requirement, recently, Li et al. proposed a new privacy-preserving RFID authentication protocol for TMIS. After that, Zhou et al. and also Benssalah et al. presented their scheme, which is not secure, and they presented their new authentication protocol and claim that their proposal can provide higher security for TMIS applications. In this stream, Zheng et al. proposed a novel authentication protocol with application in smart campus, including TMIS. In this paper, we present an efficient impersonation and replay attacks against Zheng et al. with the success probability of 1 and a desynchronization attack which is applicable against all of the rest three mentioned protocols with the success probability of 1-2^{-n} , where n is the protocols parameters length. After that, we proposed a new protocol despite these protocols can resist the attacks presented in this paper and also other active and passive attacks. Our proposed protocol's security is also done both informally and formally through the Scyther tool

Secure Code Generation for Multi-Level Mutual Authentication

Any secured system requires one or more logging policies to make that system safe. Static passwords alone cannot be furthermore enough for securing systems, even with strong passwords illegal intrusions occur or it suffers the risk of forgotten. Authentication using many levels (factors) might complicate the steps when intruders try to reach system resources. Any person to be authorized for logging-in a secured system must provide some predefined data or present some entities that identify his/her authority. Predefined information between the client and the system help to get more secure level of logging-in. In this paper, the user that aims to log-in to a secured system must provide a recognized RFID card with a mobile number, which is available in the secured systems database, then the secured system with a simple algorithm generates a One-Time Password that is sent via GSM Arduino compatible shield to the user announcing him/her as an authorized person

Efficient and Low-Cost RFID Authentication Schemes

Security in passive resource-constrained Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags is of much interest nowadays. Resistance against illegal tracking, cloning, timing, and replay attacks are necessary for a secure RFID authentication scheme. Reader authentication is also necessary to thwart any illegal attempt to read the tags. With an objective to design a secure and low-cost RFID authentication protocol, Gene Tsudik proposed a timestamp-based protocol using symmetric keys, named YA-TRAP*. Although YA-TRAP* achieves its target security properties, it is susceptible to timing attacks, where the timestamp to be sent by the reader to the tag can be freely selected by an adversary. Moreover, in YA-TRAP*, reader authentication is not provided, and a tag can become inoperative after exceeding its pre-stored threshold timestamp value. In this paper, we propose two mutual RFID authentication protocols that aim to improve YA-TRAP* by preventing timing attack, and by providing reader authentication. Also, a tag is allowed to refresh its pre-stored threshold value in our protocols, so that it does not become inoperative after exceeding the threshold. Our protocols also achieve other security properties like forward security, resistance against cloning, replay, and tracking attacks. Moreover, the computation and communication costs are kept as low as possible for the tags. It is important to keep the communication cost as low as possible when many tags are authenticated in batch-mode. By introducing aggregate function for the reader-to-server communication, the communication cost is reduced. We also discuss different possible applications of our protocols. Our protocols thus capture more security properties and more efficiency than YA-TRAP*. Finally, we show that our protocols can be implemented using the current standard low-cost RFID infrastructures.Comment: 21 pages, Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA), Vol 2, No 3, pp. 4-25, 201

Survey: An overview of lightweight RFID authentication protocols suitable for the maritime internet of things

The maritime sector employs the Internet of Things (IoT) to exploit many of its benefits to maintain a competitive advantage and keep up with the growing demands of the global economy. The maritime IoT (MIoT) not only inherits similar security threats as the general IoT, it also faces cyber threats that do not exist in the traditional IoT due to factors such as the support for long-distance communication and low-bandwidth connectivity. Therefore, the MIoT presents a significant concern for the sustainability and security of the maritime industry, as a successful cyber attack can be detrimental to national security and have a flow-on effect on the global economy. A common component of maritime IoT systems is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. It has been revealed in previous studies that current RFID authentication protocols are insecure against a number of attacks. This paper provides an overview of vulnerabilities relating to maritime RFID systems and systematically reviews lightweight RFID authentication protocols and their impacts if they were to be used in the maritime sector. Specifically, this paper investigates the capabilities of lightweight RFID authentication protocols that could be used in a maritime environment by evaluating those authentication protocols in terms of the encryption system, authentication method, and resistance to various wireless attacks