• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.45-49
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a secure and efficient RFID-based patient authentication protocol to not only authenticate patients' authenticity but also protect patients' personal medical informations for u-Healthcare environments. Since the proposed RFID-based patient authentication protocol provides strong security and efficiency, it can be used practically for patient authentication and personal medical information protection on the high technology medical environments such as u-Hospital and u-Healthcare.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.691-706
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• 2011

Since security and privacy problems in RFID systems have attracted much attention, numerous RFID authentication protocols have been suggested. One of the various design approaches is to use light-weight logics such as bitwise Boolean operations and addition modulo $2^m$ between m-bits words. Because these operations can be implemented in a small chip area, that is the major requirement in RFID protocols, a series of protocols have been suggested conforming to this approach. In this paper, we present new attacks on these lightweight RFID authentication protocols by using the Gr$\ddot{o}$bner basis. Our attacks are superior to previous ones for the following reasons: since we do not use the specific characteristics of target protocols, they are generally applicable to various ones. Furthermore, they are so powerful that we can recover almost all secret information of the protocols. For concrete examples, we show that almost all secret variables of six RFID protocols, LMAP, $M^2AP$, EMAP, SASI, Lo et al.'s protocol, and Lee et al.'s protocol, can be recovered within a few seconds on a single PC.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.71-82
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• 2005

Though there are many authentication protocols for RFID system, only a few protocols support location privacy. Because of tag's hardware limitation, these protocols suffer from many security threats, especially from DoS (Denial of Service) attack. In this paper, we explain location privacy problem and show vulnerabilities of RFID authentication protocols. And then, we suggest an authentication protocol that is strong against location tracing, spoofing attack and DoS attack

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.2247-2256
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a coordinator-based reader protocol that can avoid reader collisions in a passive RFID system. In a proposed protocol, unlike conventional protocols that a reader itself selects its own slot randomly to communicate with tags such as DCS, Colorwave, a coordinator reader allocates an unused slot to a reader to participate in the network and sends a current slot number. A reader allocated a slot can communicate with tags. The proposed protocol can adaptively modified to apply for multiple coordinator readers environment in a wide area. This causes reader collision problem, but can be alleviated partly by applying the frequency planning. In this way, we verifies that a RFID system using the proposed protocol is three to five times better than existing systems through the simulation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.321-328
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• 2010

This paper presents a coordinator-based TDMA reader protocol that can avoid the reader collision in a passive RFID system. In the proposed protocol, the coordinator can not only minimize the number of empty slots by efficiently allocating slots to readers incoming in Poisson distribution, but reduce latency time through the limited frame size. The proposed protocol can be implemented in either mobile or fixed mode through the slot structure to be described in the context. The simulation results show it works as suggested and the frame size limitation as well as the statistical distribution of incoming readers has a great impact on the overall slots and the average latency time.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.122-128
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• 2010

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 and Reader of mobile and connection between Tag and Reader bet also provides authentication mechanism by defining the key distribution.

• 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.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.61-68
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• 2011

Recently arithmetic circuit of lightweight AES symmetric key algorithm that can apply to passive tag have been developed, then security protocol of RFID system using AES symmetric encryption techniques have been proposed. This paper proposed security enhancement protocol of RFID system using lightweight AES arithmetic circuit and random number generator of passive tag. The proposed protocol have AES algorithm and random number generator at server, reader, tag, and transmit encrypted message by separate secret key using random number at each session. The mutual authentication of tag and reader used reader random number and tag random number. As a result, proposal protocol reduce authentication steps of the existing mutual authentication protocol, and reduce amount of computation of tag, and demonstrate as secure protocol to every attack type of attacker by decrease communication step of Air Zone.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.25-35
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• 2006

Radio Frequency identification (RFID) will become an important technology in remotely object identification systems. However, the use of RFID tags may create new threats to the sniな and Privacy of individuals holding RFID tags. These threats bring several problems which are information leakage of a tag, location trace of individuals and impersonation of a tag. Low-cost RFID systems have much restrictions such as the limited computing power, passive power mechanism and low storage space. Therefore, the cost of tag's computation should be considered as an important factor in low-cost RFID systems. We propose an authentication protocol, OHLCAP which requires only one one-way hash function operation and hence is very efficient. Furthermore, our protocol is suitable to distribution database environment. Hence our scheme can be applied to ubiquitous computing environment.