A Lightweight Path Authentication Protocol for RFID-Based Supply Chains

  • Yuyin Qian
  • , Peng Zeng*
  • , Zuming Shen
  • , Kim Kwang Raymond Choo
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Due to the ability for real-time tracking and tracing of products and components, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has an important role in supply chain man-agement. However, the limited memory of tags and their lack of computing capability complicate the challenge of designing an efficient and secure tag path authentication protocol for an RFID-based supply chain. Recently in 2016, Wang et al. [1] proposed an efficient path authentication protocol with reduced requirements on the tag memory. Specifically, for a single tag, it is 800 bits instead of 960 bits in the tag path authentication protocol 'Tracker' [2]). In this paper, we propose a new tag path authentication protocol for RFID-based supply chains, which further reduces the memory space from 800 bits to 640 bits. At the same time, the new protocol reduces the computation cost required at each reader and removes the strong assumption that the manager in the system needs to store all readers' private keys in Wang et al.'s protocol and the 'Tracker'.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1297-1302
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781538643877
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Sep 2018
Event17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018 - New York, United States
Duration: 31 Jul 20183 Aug 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - 17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018

Conference

Conference17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York
Period31/07/183/08/18

Keywords

  • RFID
  • lightweight protocol
  • path authentication
  • privacy
  • security
  • track and trace

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