Authentication for low-cost Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) is a booming research topic. The challenge is to develop secure protocols using lightweight cryptography, yet ensuring privacy. A current trend is to design such protocols upon the Learning Parity from Noise (LPN) problem. The first who introduced this solution were Hopper and Blum in 2001. Since then, many protocols have been de...

† This work was supported by the Regional Research Centers Program(Research Center for Logistics Information Technology), granted by the Korean Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development. Abstract RFID technology could greatly improve the business efficiency. EPCglobal Network suggests a kind of interface, called ALE (Application Level Events), for an efficient RFID developing environm...

This paper investigates authentication and secure data retrieval issues in Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID)-aware wireless sensor networks. We propose a network architecture (ARIES) consisting of RFIDs and wireless sensor nodes, a mutual authentication protocol (AMULET), and a Secret Search Protocol (SSP). ARIES utilises RFID-aware sensor nodes to alleviate distance limitation problem in R...

HB and HB+ are a shared secret-key authentication protocols designed for low-cost devices such as RFID tags. HB+ was proposed by Juels and Weis at Crypto 2005. The security of the protocols relies on the learning parity with noise (LPN) problem, which was proven to be NP-hard. The best known attack on LPN by Levieil and Fouque [13] requires subexponential number of samples and sub-exponential n...

Besides the opportunities offered by the all-embracing Internet of Things (IoT) technology, it also poses a tremendous threat to the privacy of the carriers of these devices. In this work, we build upon the idea of an RFID-based IoT realized by means of standardized and well-established Internet protocols. In particular, we demonstrate how the Internet Protocol Security protocol suite (IPsec) c...

Search protocols are among the main applications of RFID systems. Since a search protocol should be able to locate a certain tag among many tags, not only it should be secure against RFID threats but also it should be affordable. In this article, an RFID-based search protocol will be presented. We use an encryption technique that is referred to as authenticated encryption in order to boost the ...

This paper describes an identification and authentication protocol for RFID tags with two contributions aiming at enhancing the security and privacy of RFID based systems. First, we assume that some of the servers storing the information related to the tags can be compromised. In order to protect the tags from potentially malicious servers, we devise a technique that makes RFID identification s...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems have bestowed numerous conveniences in a multitude of applications, but the underlying wireless communications architecture makes it vulnerable to several security threats. To mitigate these issues, various authentication protocols been proposed. The literature accommodates comprehensive proposals and analysis protocols, not many them provide hardwa...