A secure and scalable identification for hash-based RFID systems using updatable pre-computation

  • Authors:
  • Yasunobu Nohara;Sozo Inoue

  • Affiliations:
  • Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan;Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Wireless network security
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a secure identification scheme for RFID with efficient time and memory, and also an efficient update of pre-computed values on the server side. Although RFID ( Radio Frequency IDentification ) is becoming popular with pervasive computing environments, a privacy problem still remains, where an adversary can trace users' behavior by linking identification log by adversary readers. For this problem, a hash-chain scheme has been proposed as a secure identification for low-cost RFID tags, and its long identification time has been reduced by Avoine et al. using pre-computation on the server side. However, Avoine's scheme uses static pre-computation, and therefore pre-computed values include ones which are already used and no longer used. An efficient update of pre-computation is needed to remove these wasted values and this can reduce memory usage. In this paper, we optimize a lookup of pre-computed values using d-left hashing, which is a fast lookup technique, and provide efficient update of pre-computed values. We also show reasonable analytical evaluation and experimental result for memory and pre-computation/identification/update time.