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Scalable, privacy preserving radio‐frequency identification protocol for the internet of things
Author(s) -
Asadpour Mahdi,
Dashti Mohammad Torabi
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
concurrency and computation: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1532-0634
pISSN - 1532-0626
DOI - 10.1002/cpe.3165
Subject(s) - radio frequency identification , computer science , scalability , protocol (science) , overhead (engineering) , traceability , authentication (law) , identification (biology) , computer network , computer security , the internet , limit (mathematics) , world wide web , database , medicine , mathematical analysis , botany , alternative medicine , software engineering , mathematics , pathology , biology , operating system
Summary It is now possible to embed radio‐frequency identification tags into almost any physical device. However, issues regarding privacy remain a concern and limit their widespread use. We propose a scalable anonymous radio‐frequency identification authentication protocol using what we refer to as anonymous tickets. These tickets uniquely identify tags and are reusable. This considerably strengthens its non‐traceability and requires just O ( 1 ) search/query time, with minimal storage overhead on the back‐end system. We formally prove the protocol and compare the performance of the proposed protocol with selected works found in literature. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.