An Improved RFID Privacy Protection Scheme Based on Hash-Chain

Author

Zhang Ya-ling ; Guo Hu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Xi´an Univ. of Technol., Xi´an, China

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a new automatic identification technology. Widespread application of RFID may leak user´s privacy. To solve this problem, an improved RFID privacy protection scheme based on Hash-chain is proposed, in which a database identifier field is introduced in RFID tag. When a RFID tag is identified by a reader, by using of the database identifier field, the reader can quickly decide whether the RFID tag belongs to the database system that the reader is associated with. Further treatment is not required if the RFID tag doesn´t belong to the database system, thus the privacy of any RFID that isn´t relevant with the database is protected. The identification load will be reduced remarkably and the efficiency will be improved evidently in the new authentication scheme.

Keywords

data privacy; database management systems; message authentication; radiofrequency identification; telecommunication computing; telecommunication security; RFID privacy protection scheme; RFID tag; authentication scheme; automatic identification technology; database identifier field; hash chain; radiofrequency identification; Authentication; Database systems; Encryption; Privacy; Radiofrequency identification;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Logistics Engineering and Intelligent Transportation Systems (LEITS), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8776-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8778-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEITS.2010.5665033

Filename

5665033