An Efficient RFID Authentication Protocol for Low-Cost Tags

Abstract

With the increased popularity of RFID applications, various authentication protocols have been proposed to provide security and privacy for RFID tags. However, most protocols require a high computational cost in verifying the tagpsilas reply in the authentication server. This paper presents an efficient mutual authentication protocol using one-way functions only. In the proposed protocol, the authentication sever just needs to compute very limited times to find out the identifier of the RFID tag irrespective of the total number of the tags. Also, the response of the tag is changed in every authentication to avoid tag tracing. In addition, a challenge-response approach is performed to overcome tag cloning and replay attack. Furthermore, the proposed protocol is secure against eavesdropping, compromising attack, denial of service attack and other common attacks.