The Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system plays an important role in authentication, security control, supply chain management, and inventory control. Due to market consideration, low-cost RFID systems have become very popular in recent years. In many applications, such as e-passport, RFID systems need security mechanisms to resist all possible attacks and security risks. However, becaus...

The EPC Class-1 Generation-2 specification(Gen-2 in brief) is widely accepted as the standard for RFID tags under grant number ISO18000-6c. However, there are two problems in view of its security authentication protocols. First of all, there is no unified standard for the security requirements, such as which threats should be protected against. Secondly, there is no widely acceptable means to g...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology will become one of the most popular technologies to identify objects in the near future. However, the major barrier that the RFID system is facing presently is the security and privacy issue. Recently, an ultralightweight RFID authentication protocol with permutation has been proposed to provide security and prevent all possible attacks. However,...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) has received much attention both in industry and academia in recent years. To this extent, the international standards group, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31, is in the midst of standardization activity to define the security extension to the EPCglobal Generation 2 (Gen2) ultra high frequency (UHF) air interface protocols for secure RFID communications. In this paper, ...

RFID is a key technology that can be used to create the pervasive society. The tag is an important part of the RFID system and most popular tags are some low-cost passive tags. These tags have limited computing and storing resources, and no more attentions are paid to their security and privacy. So the application of these tags is not secure. Lightweight authentication protocols are considered ...

Due to the very limited computing resource, storing space and electric power supply of tag, it is a great challenge for us to design a practical RFID protocol which is security, efficient and can be used in the low-cost tag. In 2007, He et al. proposed an authentication and key agreement protocol which is used in the process of communication between the low-cost tag and reader. They also proved...

In 2004, Ari Juels [1] proposed a Yoking-Proofs protocol for RFID systems. The aim is to permit tags to generate a proof which is verifiable off-line by a trusted entity even when the readers are potentially untrusted. However, we find that their protocol not only doesn’t possess the anonymity property but also suffers from both of the off-line and replay attacks. In 2006, Kirk H.M. Wong et al....

RFID tag has limited calculation resources and small storage capacity, the wireless communication channel between RFID tag and reader is vulnerable to various malicious attacks. Aimed at these problems, a HMAC-based RFID lightweight authentication protocol is proposed in this paper, and some considerations about protocol implementation are made subsequently. In the new protocol, only the Hash f...

Radio frequency identification (RFID), based on the MIT Auto-ID project [1], is a technology that uses wireless transmission to identify an object. RFID is seeing increased use in various industries as an alternative to the bar code. An RFID system consists of three components: the reader, the tag, and the back-end database. Some advantages of an RFID system are that it does not require direct ...

RFID is an important technology that can be used to create the ubiquitous society. But an RFID system uses open radio frequency signal to transfer information and this leads to pose many serious threats to its privacy and security. In general, the computing and storage resources in an RFID tag are very limited and this makes it difficult to solve its secure and private problems, especially for ...