• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.52-60
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• 2011

RFID is method used on wireless system. However, this mechanism is not used for authentication and security. Therefore, it is very vulnerable to attacks such as dropping attacks and traffic attacks. the RFID Tags are of the limited nature due to environment factors and there is greater constraints in designing authentication protocol. If we do not RFID to secure corporate information and product all the information will be exposed. The attacker will break into the RFID system and stop the distribution system. So, this paper proposes a new authentication protocol which provides not only unlimited access to Tag&Reader and connection between Tag and Reader bet also provides authentication mechanism by defining the key distribution.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.117-128
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• 2008

Compared with the existing bar code system, RFID system has lots of advantages such as it identifies automatically massive objects. We might anticipate RFID technology will be a substitution for an optical bar code system in the near future. However, their feature that uses radio waves may cause various security problems. Many kinds of solutions have been researched to overcome these security problems. In this paper, we analyze the previous proposed protocols. And then, we categorize RFID authentication into two types according to the synchronization requirement between a Back-end Database and a Tag. In addition, we introduce the previous proposed approaches to tag search problem in RFID authentication. And we propose an efficient method which provides fast tag search by using membership test algorithm, a Bloom filter.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.113-120
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• 2010

RFID system is the contact-less recognition technology and use for distribution system, environment, transport, security and so on. However, it may create many security relevant problems such as privacy because constraints of RFID communication environment. So several methods of resolving these problems have been proposed. Recently, Shin and Park proposed an efficient RFID authentication protocol with protecting user's privacy using hash function and exclusive-OR.. But Ahn and Bu et al. poia problem that a attacker can to masquerade as malicious reader because their protocol can't providing mutual authentication.nted out weakness of Shin and Park's protocol and proposed more secure and efficient protocol. Unfortunately, Ahn and But's protocol has In this paper, We propose an improved RFID authentication protocol providing mutual authentication. The proposed protocol has advantages that providing mutual authentication between a tag and a reader, secure against replay attack and spoofing attack. Also, it guarantees anonymity of RFID tag and secure against location tracking attack by collusion of malicious readers.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.13-19
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• 2012

The use of RFID is recently increasing for the realization of Ubiquitous computing. Reducing the process time of tag recognition is crucial as RFID system has to recognize multiple objects in a short amount of time. In this manuscript, therefore, an effective scheme using multi-reader is suggested to improve processing speed for tag authentication in RFID system. According to the result of performance analysis, the processing time required for tag authentication was drastically reduced in multi-reader environment than it was in a single reader. Consequently, the use of the suggested scheme cuts down on the processing time while identifying tags by using multi-reader and bring about overall performnce improvement of RFID system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.1171-1177
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• 2010

Recently RFID system is used in various fields such as distribution industry, medical industry and military service. The technology for protecting individual privacy is necessary to adapt RFID system in several applications. This paper proposes an authentication protocol which conducts mutual authentication between back-end database and tag using hash function. The proposed protocol satisfies various RFID security requirements : mutual authentication, anonymity, confidentiality, integrity, replay attack, location trace. This protocol reduces the time for authentication minimizing the number of hash operation in back-end database.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.83-90
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• 2006

Recently, the security for RFID/USN environment is divided into network security and RFID security. The authentication protocol design for RFID security is studied to protect user privacy in RFID system. However, the study of efficient authentication protocol for RFID system is not satisfy a security for low-cost RFID tag and user privacy. Therefore, this paper proposes a secure matrix-based RFID authentication protocol that decrease communication overhead and computation. In result, the Matrix-based RFID authentication protocol is an effective authentication protocol compare with HB and $HB^+$ in traffic analysis attack and trace location attack.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.3C
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• pp.348-354
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• 2007

RFID system is emerging new technology for ubiquitous computing environment. RFID system, however, provides privacy problems while the technology offers incredible rich opportunities for applications in the filed of logistics, distribution, and medical services, etc. Many researches have been conducted in order to solve this problem, but the current RFID authentication protocols are still insufficient for settling the privacy problem in the point of view of privacy intrusion and system efficiency. The purpose of this paper is to present a RFID mutual authentication protocol which improves safety level, compared with current authentication protocols. The proposed authentication protocol can provide mutual authentication services, and is secure against location tracing, spoofing, reflection attack.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.47-49
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• 2011

21세기 새로운 IT 혁명인 유비쿼터스 환경을 목표로 여러 IT 분야들은 모든 사물의 지능화를 위해 여러 기술들을 탐구하고 있다. 그 중의 하나인 RFID 시스템은 비접촉 대상물 인식을 수행하는 무선 통신 기술이다. Tag와 Reader간의 비접촉인식을 이루는 RFID 시스템은 Reader IC인 U2270B 칩이 핵심이다. 효율적으로 U2270B의 사용을 위해서는 RFID reader의 안테나 설계, 안정화된 전력공급, 그리고 작동모드 제어 등의 전반적인 기술적 이해가 필요하다. U2270B의 동작을 위한 구성은 안테나를 통한 전자장 형성과 전자유도 결합으로 동작하는 Tag와의 통신이다. 본 연구에서는 저주파수 대역 RFID Reader에 사용되는 U2270B의 구성에 대한 기본 개념과 H/W 구현에 대하여 설명하고, 실제 구현된 시스템과 각 부분의 실측 파형을 제시함으로써 환자 인증용 RFID 시스템 적용방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.10B
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• pp.1013-1020
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• 2009

This paper proposes an authentication protocol using the key server in the ECPglobai RFID system. The proposed authentication protocol uses the key server and the time-out mechanism to resist various attacks including DoS(Denial of Service) attack. For easy implementation, the proposed protocol also uses the function existing in EPCglobal class 1 gen2 protocol without additive function such as hash function. The proposed protocol is evaluated through two analytical methods. The correctness of the proposed protocol is proved using the GNY analysis. By the security analysis, this paper showed that the proposed protocol is resistant to various attacks including DoS attack. The analytical results demonstrated that the proposed protocol offered a secure RFID system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.569-573
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• 2006

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) 시스템은 기존의 바코드를 대신하면서 생산, 공급망 관리, 재고 관리등의 분야에서 중요한 역할을 할 것으로 기대되어지고 있다. 뿐만 아니라, 일상 생활에서도 RFID의 활용 분야는 다양하여 가까운 미래에는 우리 사회 전반에서 중요한 요소로 자리 잡을 것이다. 하지만, RFID 시스템에는 아직 해결해야 될 문제가 남아 있다. 태그로 부터의 원하지 않은 정보 유출로 인한 privacy와 security 문제가 여기에 해당된다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해서 많은 RFID 인증 프로토콜들이 제안 되었지만, 다소의 문제점들을 가지고 있었다. 본 논문에서는 기존에 제안된 해쉬 함수 기반의 인증 프로토콜들의 문제점들을 분석하고, spoofing 공격 및 location privacy등에 대해 안전하고 효율적인 새로운 프로토콜을 제안한다.