Noisy Cryptographic Protocols for Low-Cost RFID Tags

Chabanne, Hervé; Fumaroli, Guillaume

doi:10.1109/tit.2006.878219

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“…Recently, [9,8] have taken advantage of the noise present (or artificially generated) in the communication channel between reader and tag to enhance the security of their communication. Chabanne and Fumaroli [9] take advantage of the noise in the channel to allow readers and tags to share a secret without a passive adversary being able to learn it. Both the readers and tags perform a protocol where information reconciliation and privacy amplification through the use of universal hash functions takes place.…”

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“…More engineering oriented approaches have also been introduced such as the IBM clipped tags [28] or distance bounding protocols [33]. Finally, we have begun to see the development of techniques that take advantage of noise in the communication channel between reader and tag to camouflage their communication [8,9]. We will refer to such approaches as algsics methods 6 .…”

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ALGSICS — Combining Physics and Cryptography to Enhance Security and Privacy in RFID Systems

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Guajardo

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Security and Privacy in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks

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Abstract. RFID-tags can be seen as a new generation of bar codes with added functionality. They are becoming very popular tools for identification of products in various applications such as supply-chain management. The widespread deployment of RFID technology will depend to a large extent on its acceptance by the general public. Thus, developing privacy and security technologies specifically suited to the constrained environment of RFID tags continues to be a key problem. In this paper, we introduce several new mechanisms that are cheap to implement or integrate into RFID tags and that at the same time enhance the security of the tags and the privacy of the individual carrying the tags. These new mechanisms are based on physical principles alone or on their combination with cryptographic methods. We also review previous works that use physical principles to provide security and privacy in RFID systems.

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ALGSICS — Combining Physics and Cryptography to Enhance Security and Privacy in RFID Systems

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“…Lately, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] has attract a great attention as a new spotlight technology for assisting the computing systems everywhere. In the existing open network situation, RFID recognizes an entity via radio frequency technique which is a type of non-contact automatic identification method.…”

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PUF-based Privacy-Preserving RFID Protocol

Ali¹

2018

CAE

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The limitation of RFID tag resources plays a great challenge for the researchers to implement an applied RFID scheme which is privacy-preserving, efficient and suitable for a lowcost tag. In this paper, we suggest a privacy-preserving mutual authenticated key establishment protocol for RFID systems with no computational or storage consumption. Our scheme is based on the utilization of the fading channel features and the use of Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs). Firstly, we exploit the resources provided by the time-varying channel gains to share a common randomization source between RFID reader and its tags, for key establishment. Secondly, we use PUF for tags authentication and improving the key generation rate of our suggested protocol. We determine the upper bound for the generation rate of a secret key shared among reader and tag, and give numerical examples to reveal the performance of our suggested technique.

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“…Security for inductively-coupled communication has previously been connected [14], [15] to the wiretap channel [16], a canonical problem in information-theoretic security [17]. However [14], [15] do not use a physical model for an inductively-coupled link.…”

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“…However [14], [15] do not use a physical model for an inductively-coupled link. Ytrehus points out that for inductive coupling, "an eavesdropper needs to insert his/her own additional antenna into the system, and this may detune the overall system and make it difficult or impossible to carry out the legitimate conversation" [3].…”

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Securing inductively-coupled communication

Varshney

Grover

Sahai

2012

2012 Information Theory and Applications Workshop

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Abstract-Communication over inductively-coupled links is becoming prevalent in service delivery for medical, financial, and physical security applications and so there is a growing need to prevent eavesdropping. This paper presents circuittheoretic and communication-theoretic models of inductivelycoupled communication systems. Due to coupling, the presence of an eavesdropper detunes the transfer function between the legitimate users. It is shown this detuning can be detected to reveal the presence of the eavesdropper. Further, if capacityapproaching codes are employed, neither the eavesdropper nor the legitimate receiver are able to reconstruct the transmitted message with low error probability, effectively destroying the message. Building on this insight, a coding-based secure communication protocol for inductively-coupled communication, inspired by quantum key distribution, is developed. The notion of security is defined operationally in terms of probabilities rather than through traditional notions of equivocation. Separately, there has been interest in understanding the privacy and security aspects of inductively-coupled systems. With the emergence of RFID in customer-facing service delivery rather than simply back-office logistical operations [10], there is a growing business need for securing such communications. This is particularly important when transmitted information involves medical data, financial transactions, or physical access control signals. One particular kind of privacy attack is eavesdropping, where a third party antenna is used to couple into the communication channel and capture some information; the literature in this area (including a recount of effective attacks in practice) is well-summarized in [11]; one recently proposed approach to protect against eavesdroppers is active jamming [12].Contrary to traditional studies of wireless communication that use far-field models of electromagnetics, inductive coupling is a near-field effect, i.e. the distance between the participating antennas is comparable to (or smaller than) the

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Noisy Cryptographic Protocols for Low-Cost RFID Tags

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ALGSICS — Combining Physics and Cryptography to Enhance Security and Privacy in RFID Systems

ALGSICS — Combining Physics and Cryptography to Enhance Security and Privacy in RFID Systems

PUF-based Privacy-Preserving RFID Protocol

Securing inductively-coupled communication

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