• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.1-9
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• 2012

Low-cost RFID tags are used in many applications. However, since it has very limited power of computation and storage, it's not easy to make a RFID mutual authentication protocol which can resist from the various security attacks. Quite recently, Tian et al. proposed a new ultralightweight authentication protocol (RAPP) for low-cost RFID tags using the low computation cost operations; XOR, rotation, and permutation operations, which is able to resist from the various security attacks. In this paper, we show that RAPP is vulnerable to the de-synchronization attack and present an improved RAPP which overcomes the vulnerability of RAPP.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.81-91
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• 2009

Recently, Chein et al proposed the ultralightweight strong authentication and strong integrity (SASI)protocol, where the tag requrires only simple bitwise operations. Since the tag does not support random number generator to generate a challenge nonce, an attacker can replay old messages and impersonate reader. However, all of the previous ultralightweight authentication schemes are vlunerable to various attacks: de-synk, eavesdropping, impersonating, tracking, DoS, disclosure etc. we analyze the problems of previous proposed ultrlightweight protocols, to overcome these security problems by using PRNG on the tag. Therefore, in this paper we propose a new lightweight RFID mutual authentication protocol that provides random number generator and bitwise operations, a security and an efficiency of the proposed schme analyze.