Linear complementary pair of codes based lightweight RFID protocol

Abstract

Data security and privacy is an essential topic in today’s life. It is necessary to prevent secret data from leakage. There are many services where data transfer is done without any physical contact and at a low-cost. Radio frequency identification (RFID) is one of the basic technical knowledge that solves the problem of data privacy. Many RFID protocols have been designed to ensure data security and privacy. But, a large portion of these protocols suffers from common security attacks and high computational costs. We present a lightweight RFID protocol based on linear complementary pair of codes to overcome these issues. This protocol ensures formal security using a random oracle model and BAN logic. For security verification of our protocol, we use the Scyther simulation tool. In addition, we compare the performance of our protocol in terms of storage costs, communication costs and computational costs with related existing protocols. We determine that our protocol gives preferable security and effectiveness over related competing protocols and is applicable for RFID systems.