Pitfalls in an ECC-based lightweight authentication protocol for low-cost RFID

Chien Ming Chen; Shuai Min Chen; Xinying Zhen; Lijun Yan; Huaxiong Wang; Hung Min Sun

Pitfalls in an ECC-based lightweight authentication protocol for low-cost RFID

Chien Ming Chen^*, Shuai Min Chen, Xinying Zhen, Lijun Yan, Huaxiong Wang, Hung Min Sun

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Abstract

RFID technology has become popular in many applications; however, most of the RFID products lack security related functionality due to the hardware limitation of the low-cost RFID tags. In 2009, Chien and Laih proposed an RFID authentication protocol based on error correction codes (ECC) to secure RFID systems with untraceability, which is one of the most critical privacy issues on RFID. In this paper, we demonstrate that their scheme is insecure against two kinds of tracing attacks. We also analyze the success probability of our attacks.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	642-648
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing
Volume	5
Issue number	4
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Error correction code
Privacy
RFID
Security

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