RFID System Mutual Authentication Protocols Based on ECC

Abstract

With the rapid development of internet of things (IOT), the research on security authentication for radio frequency identification (RFID) has become a hot spot. In order to address this issue, a RFID authentication protocol based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is proposed in this paper, by which the mutual authentication between the tag and the backend server can be realized. The security analysis shows that the proposed authentication protocol can resist major attacks on RFID, such as impersonation attacks, replay attacks, tracking attacks, denial of service (DoS) attacks, forward attacks, and etc. Moreover, the analyses on computation complexity, storage capacity and communication overhead also indicate it is an efficient and lightweight authentication protocol.