Improved (and practical) public-key authentication for UHF RFID tags

  • Authors:
  • Sébastien Canard;Loïc Ferreira;Matt Robshaw

  • Affiliations:
  • Applied Cryptography Group, Orange Labs, Caen Cedex, France;Applied Cryptography Group, Orange Labs, Issy les Moulineaux, France;Applied Cryptography Group, Orange Labs, Issy les Moulineaux, France

  • Venue:
  • CARDIS'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

cryptoGPS has been promoted as a public-key technology suitable for UHF RFID tag authentication. Since it is a classical commitment-challenge-response (CCR) scheme, it can be converted into a signature scheme using the transformation proposed by Fiat and Shamir. Previously this signature variant has not been considered for RFID, but in this paper we show how to achieve this transformation in a way that yields a compact and efficient scheme. Further, the three-pass CCR scheme is turned into a regular challenge-response scheme with the attendant protocol and implementation improvements. Since we use a block cipher rather than a hash function for the transformation, we justify our approach using results in the ideal cipher model and the net result is a variant of cryptoGPS that offers asymmetric UHF tag authentication with reduced communication and protocol complexity.