A secure elliptic curve-based RFID protocol

  • Authors:
  • Santi Martínez;Magda Valls;Concepció Roig;Josep M. Miret;Francesc Giné

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain;Mathematics Department, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain;Computer Science Department, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain;Mathematics Department, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain;Computer Science Department, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer Science and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Nowadays, the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems in industry and stores has increased. Nevertheless, some of these systems present privacy problems that may discourage potential users. Hence, high confidence and efficient privacy protocols are urgently needed. Previous studies in the literature proposed schemes that are proven to be secure, but they have scalability problems. A feasible and scalable protocol to guarantee privacy is presented in this paper. The proposed protocol uses elliptic curve cryptography combined with a zero knowledge-based authentication scheme. An analysis to prove the system secure, and even forward secure is also provided.