Efficient RFID authentication protocol for ubiquitous computing environment

Abstract

Radio Frequency identificiation (RFID) will become an important technology in remotely object identification systems. However, the use of RFID tags may create new threats to the security and privacy of individuals holding RFID tags. These threats bring several problems which are information leakage of a tag, location trace of individuals and impersonation of a tag. Low-cost RFID systems have much restrictions such as the limited computing power, passive power mechanism and low storage space. Therefore, the cost of tag's computation should be considered as an important factor in low-cost RFID systems. We propose an authentication protocol, OHLCAP which requires only one one-way hash function operation and hence is very efficient. Furthermore, our protocol is suitable to ubiquitous computing environment. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2005.