Mutual Authentication Based on HECC for RFID Implant Systems

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an environment in which “things” (objects, animals or people) are provided with unique identifiers (IPv6 addresses) and the ability to communicate over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. Radio-Frequency Identification Technology (RFID) is the key enabler of the IoT. The RFID Implant System considered in the proposed work consists of an implantable, passive RFID tag which is a data carrying device that is attached to the object to be identified, RFID reader which communicates with the tag in order to read or write data to its memory and, the back-end database which stores information related to the identified object. There are several security issues associated with the use of RFID tags in IoT like eavesdropping, impersonation, cloning, replay attack, tag destruction, unauthorized tag reading, tag modification etc. To defend such attacks effectively, efficient security mechanisms are essential. So, the proposed system aims to provide a secure mutual authentication mechanism based on Hyper Elliptic Curve Cryptography (HECC) to authenticate the communication between the RFID tag and reader. The security of Hyper-elliptic Curve Cryptosystem depends on the hardness of solving hyper-elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem (HCDLP). This problem helps to avoid the eavesdropper from breaking into the security of the HECC cryptosystem. The proposed work also uses D-Quark hash algorithm.