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BEST: A bidirectional efficiency-privacy transferable authentication protocol for RFID-enabled supply chain

  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Nanyang Technological University
  • University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

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Abstract

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technique is gaining increasing popularity in supply chain for the product management. By attaching a tag to each product, a reader can employ an authentication protocol to interrogate the tag's information for verification, which facilitates the automatic processing and monitoring of products in many applications. However, most current solutions cannot be directly used as they cannot balance the tradeoff between the privacy and efficiency for individual parties. In this paper, we design a bidirectional efficiency-privacy transferable (BEST) authentication protocol to address this issue. In a relatively secure domain, BEST works in an efficient manner to authenticate batches of tags with less privacy guarantee. Once the tags flow into open environment, BEST can migrate to provide stronger privacy protection to the tags with moderate efficiency degradation. The analytic result shows that BEST can well adapt to the RFID-enabled supply chain.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2012 IEEE 18th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2012
Pages424-431
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2012 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 17 Dec 201219 Dec 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ICPADS
ISSN (Print)1521-9097

Conference

Conference18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2012
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period17/12/1219/12/12

Keywords

  • Authentication
  • Communication efficiency
  • Privacy
  • RFID
  • Supply chain

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