T-Match: privacy-preserving item matching for storage-only RFID tags

  • Authors:
  • Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui;Erik-Oliver Blass;Refik Molva

  • Affiliations:
  • Eurecom, Sophia-Antipolis, France;College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA;Eurecom, Sophia-Antipolis, France

  • Venue:
  • RFIDSec'12 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Radio Frequency Identification: security and privacy issues
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

RFID-based tag matching allows a reader Rk to determine whether two tags Ti and Tj store some attributes that jointly fulfill a boolean constraint. The challenge in designing a matching mechanism is tag privacy. While cheap tags are unable to perform any computation, matching has to be achieved without revealing the tags' attributes. In this paper, we present T-Match, a protocol for secure and privacy preserving RFID tag matching. T-Match involves a pair of tags Ti and Tj, a reader Rk, and a backend server S. To ensure tag privacy against Rk and S, T-Match employs a new technique based on secure two-party computation that prevents Rk and S from disclosing tag attributes. For tag privacy against eavesdroppers, each tag Ti in T-Match stores an IND-CPA encryption of its attribute. Such an encryption allows Rk to update the state of Ti by merely re-encrypting Ti's ciphertext. T-Match targets cheap tags that cannot perform any computation, but are only required to store 150 bytes.