Analysis of RFID Mutual Authentication Protocols

Author

Guo, Charng Rang

Author_Institution

Defence Sci. & Technol. Agency, Infocomm Infrastruct. Programme Centre, Singapore

fYear

2009

fDate

5-8 April 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In order to secure RFID transactions, an authentication scheme has originally been included as part of the "EPC Gen2" industrial standard. This scheme, however, has been found to have some weaknesses. To overcome such weaknesses, some authors have proposed new schemes to improve its security. Two of the latest proposals are the Lim-Li protocol and the Konidala-Kim-Kim protocol presented in 2007. We propose an attack that can be applied to both these protocols. In both cases, the search space for the password(s) used have been drastically reduced, which effectively breaks the security of these protocols.

Keywords

authorisation; message authentication; protocols; radiofrequency identification; EPC Gen2 industrial standard; Konidala-Kim-Kim protocol; Lim-Li protocol; RFID mutual authentication protocols; RFID transaction security; password; search space; Access protocols; Authentication; Communications Society; Data security; Databases; Proposals; Radiofrequency identification;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2009. WCNC 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2947-9

Electronic_ISBN

1525-3511

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2009.4917595

Filename

4917595