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Lightweight and safety are two essential features for large-scale application of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. Based on the analysis of potential safety problem of RFID and the characteristics of existing typical authentication protocol, a new low-cost RFID tags authentication protocol was proposed. The performance of the new protocol was analyzed. The results show that the protocol can resist replay attacks and concurrent attacks and has nontracking, authenticity, and service availability. In addition, the protocol can also reduce the storage of tags and computation burden to meet the application requirements of low-cost tags.
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Foundation item: Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (60970115,61003268)
Biography: WEI Guoheng, male, Ph.D. candidate, research direction: cryptology and information security.
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Wei, G., Zhang, H. A lightweight authentication protocol scheme for RFID security. Wuhan Univ. J. Nat. Sci. 18, 504–510 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11859-013-0964-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11859-013-0964-2