Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author. C.K. Shyamala, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India. E-mail: ck_shyamala@cb.amrita.edu.
Abstract: Automatic identification systems represent a wide classification of devices used primarily in commercial settings for inventory/logistics control. Familiar examples of such devices are bar codes, magnetic strips, smart cards, RFID (Radio-frequency identification) and biometric and voice recognition. Security is especially lax in low powered radio frequency systems communicating through an unsecured radio wave channel. Security represents a critical component for enabling the large scale adoption of automatic identification systems. Providing an effective security solution for low powered systems is a major area of concern; it directs research towards ‘power consumption aware’ computations in security solutions. This paper proposes a lightweight inter-zonal authentication Protocol for moving objects in low powered radio frequency systems. Formal validation and a thorough analysis of the protocol in SPAN security tool reveal its effectiveness and resiliency to attacks – eavesdropping, reader and tag impersonation, replay and desynchronization.
Keywords: Lightweight radio frequency systems, authentication, RFID, eavesdropping
