Design of a secure RFID authentication scheme preceding market transactions

Issue title: Emerging Wireless and Mobile Technologies

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Chen, Chin-Ling

Affiliations: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan

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Abstract: In recent years, as RFID reader equipment is ever more widely deployed in handled devices, the importance of security problems among RFID reader, tags and server have obviously gained increased attention. However, there are still many security issues preceding transactions; these issues are well worth discussing. In this paper, we propose a novel authentication scheme, conforming EPC C1G2 standards, at a low implementation cost for market application. In order to achieve mutual authentication, the proposed scheme integrates fingerprint biometrics, related cryptology and a hash function mechanism to ensure the security of the transmitted messages. The proposed scheme also can resist known attacks.

Keywords: Mutual authentication, RFID, security, attack, EPC C1G2 standards

DOI: 10.3233/MIS-2011-0118

Journal: Mobile Information Systems, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 201-216, 2011