A secure ECC-based RFID authentication scheme integrated with ID-verifier transfer protocol

Abstract

IoT (Internet of Things) is a type of network where ICT (Information and Communication Technology) links any physical objects to the internet to perform information exchange. Owing to the congenital advantages RFID is expected to play a key role as enabling identification technology in IoT. At the same time, its integration with sensing technologies brings wide applicability in many productive sectors. On the other hand, security appears to be one of the most challenging areas about designing the RFID system. The problems of authentication and privacy are fundamental to RFID security. It is well known that elliptic curve cryptosystem (ECC) based algorithms would be best choice among PKC algorithms due to their small key sizes and efficient computations. In this paper, we proposed a secure ECC-based RFID authentication scheme integrated with ID-verifier transfer protocol. The proposed scheme can achieve mutual authentication and satisfy the essential requirements of RFID system. Performance evolution and function comparison demonstrate that the proposed scheme is well suited for RFID tags with the scarceness of resources.