Title :
Role-Based Enhancement of Secure Authentication for RF-UCard Systems
Author :
Cao, Jichang ; Shu, Lin ; Lu, Zhengding
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan
Abstract :
Radio Frequency Universal Smart Cards (RF-UCard) open up the possibility for various attacks violating user privacy. In this paper, we propose a strong and lightweight role-based mutual authentication protocol. By employing the mutual authentication and the reader-role validation, the protocol can effectively defend against both passive and active attacks, including the invalid data access from the unauthorized readers. Through the protocol implementation, we observe that the proposed protocol is feasible and practical in RF-UCard systems.
Keywords :
data privacy; message authentication; radiofrequency identification; smart cards; RF-UCard systems; data access; radio frequency universal smart cards; reader-role validation; role-based enhancement; role-based mutual authentication protocol; secure authentication; user privacy; Access protocols; Authentication; Cryptographic protocols; Data security; Hardware; Operating systems; Privacy; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency identification; Smart cards;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dalian
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2107-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2108-4
DOI :
10.1109/WiCom.2008.695
