A Secure ECC-Based RFID Authentication Scheme Using Hybrid Protocols

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has grown tremendously and has been widely applied in various applications. RFID tags are becoming very attractive devices installed a small microchip for identification of products. This chip functionality makes it possible to verify the authenticity of a product. It is well known that elliptic curve cryptosystem (ECC) receive much attention due to their small key sizes and efficient computations. Recently, some ECC-based authentication schemes are proposed to apply well to the limited resources of the tags. Unfortunately, these schemes ignore some security and operational issues. In this paper, we proposed a secure ECC-based RFID authentication scheme to achieve mutual authentication using both secure ID-verifier transfer and challenge-response protocols. Moreover, the proposed scheme can satisfy the security requirements of RFID. Performance analysis and function comparisons demonstrate that the proposed scheme is well suited for RFID tags with the scarceness of resources. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.