• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.16C no.6
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• pp.669-680
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• 2009

By identifying the unique information of the objects using the RF, the RFID technique which will be able to manage the object is spot-lighted as the main technology in Ubiquitous era. On RFID systems, since the information of RFID may easily be unveiled in air, the secure and privacy problems always exist. In this paper, we propose mutual authentication protocol based on symmetric key. Proposed protocol has been able to minimize the tag's H/W resource by using symmetric key. And we use tag ID which is encrypted with hash function and a shared symmetric key by Challenge-Response pair of PUF(Physically Unclonable Function), thus there is no key disclosure problem in our protocol.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.7C
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• pp.755-761
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• 2006

Previous RFID technique, it is recognizable without the physical contact between the reader and the tag, causes the serious privacy infringement such as excessive information exposure and user's location information tracking due to the wireless characteristics. Especially the information security problem of read only tag is solved by physical method. In this paper, we propose a low-cost mutual authentication protocol which is adopted to read-only tag and secure to several attacks using XOR and Partial ID. The proposed protocol is secure against reply attacking, eavesdropping, spoofing attacking and location tracking.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2009

Recently, Shin and Park proposed an authentication protocol using the hash function and the XOR operation in RFID/USN environment. However, Shin and Park's proposed authentication protocol is vulnerable to spoofing attack and location tracking attack and tag key exposure attack, and it does not provide tag anonymity. In this paper, we propose an improved authentication protocol for the RFID/USN environment that can withstand those attacks. The proposed authentication protocol provides more improved secrecy and communication efficiency because it decreases the communication rounds compared with the Shin and Park's protocol.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.737-744
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• 2010

The use of RFID recently tends to increase and is expected to expand all over the industry and life. However, RFID is much vulnerable to the malign threats such as eavesdropping, replay attack, spoofing attack, location tracking in the process of authentication. In particular, it is difficult to apply authentication protocol used in the other previous system to low-priced RFID tag. After all, this paper suggests the scheme of efficient authentication protocol for RFID privacy protection. Compared to the previous scheme, suggested scheme reinforces the checking process of transmission data and is secure from eavesdropping and spoofing attack. It minimizes the operation work of the tag and is very useful to apply to the low-priced tag. It also has the merit to confirm the efficiency of communication by reducing the communication rounds.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.193-200
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• 2007

There is an advantage that RFID system is better than previous bar code system in storage ability and noncontact property. But, everyone can easily receive the transmitting information by using RF signal. So, there is a problem that system security and personal privacy are threatened. In this paper, I propose RFID system that is secure against attacks like eavesdropping, replay, spoofing and location tracking and can efficiently provide mutual authentication services between reader and tag. The proposed RFID system can be used in various sections of ubiquitous computing environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.253-254
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• 2011

Most of existing RFID authentication protocols either suffer from some security weaknesses or require costly operations that are not available on low-cost tags. In this paper, we analyzed the security mechanism of a lightweight authentication protocol.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.642-648
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• 2006

In this paper, I have proposed a secure dynamic ID allocation protocol using mutual authentication on the RFID tag. Currently, there are many security protocols focused on the low-price RFID tag. The conventional low-price tags have limitation of computing power and rewritability of memory. The proposed secure dynamic ID allocation protocol targets to the high-performance RFID tags which have more powerful performance than conventional low-price tag by allocating a dynamic ID to RFID using mutual authentication based on symmetric encryption algorithm. This protocol can be used as a partial solution for ID tracing and forgery.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39B no.12
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• pp.831-841
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• 2014

The attacker can access the RFID systems illegally because authentication operation on the RFID systems are performed in wireless communication. Authentication methods based on the PUF were presented to defend attacks. Because of Hash and AES, the cost is expensive for the low-cost RFID tag. In this paper, the PUF-based encryption processor and the mutual authentication protocol are proposed for low-cost RFID authentication. The challenge-response pairs (PUF's input and output) are utilized as the authentication key and encrypted by the PUF's characteristics. The encryption method is changed each session and XOR operation with random number is utilized. Therefore, it is difficult for the attacker to analyze challenge-response pairs and attack the systems. In addition, the proposed method with PUF is strong against physical attacks. And the method protects the tag cloning attack by physical attacks because there is no authentication data in the tag. Proposed processor is implemented at low cost with small footprint and low power.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.104-107
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• 2008

본 논문에서 제안하는 시스템은 기존의 RFID 시스템의 보안성을 높이기 위하여 2차원 배열 기법을 이용하여 안전성을 확보할 수 있게 되었다. 제안하는 시스템은 RFID Tag의 고유 ID 값인 UID값과 2차원 배열을 이용하여 태그와 리더간 인증을 하게 된다. 제안하는 시스템에서 암 복호화를 하기 위해서는 태그의 고유 ID값인 UID값과 관리자가 정의한 키셋을 이용한 암 복호화 과정에서의 안전성을 기존의 다른 시스템과의 비교를 통해 우수함을 입증한다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.229-233
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• 2012

A RFID system is a technology for detecting information on an object through wireless communication between a tag on the object and a reader, and its applications are being expanded to various areas. Because of its wireless communication, however, there are many vulnerabilities in security. Until now, many studies have been executed in order to solve problems related to the security and stability of RFID. In order to resolve vulnerabilities in existing security methods for privacy protection, this study proposed an authentication protocol that uses hash values received from tags and random numbers. When the proposed protocol was implemented, it was safe from various types of attacks between tag and reader and between reader and DB. Furthermore, compared to recently proposed protocols, it could implement a RFID system with enhanced security and less computation in tags.