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Cryptanalysis and Enhancement of a Secure Group Ownership Transfer Protocol for RFID Tags

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Global Security, Safety and Sustainability & e-Democracy (e-Democracy 2011, ICGS3 2011)

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Ownership transfer and grouping proof protocols are the two most important requirements for RFID tag in various applications such as pharmaceutical distribution and manufacturing. In 2010, Zuo integrated these two requirements and introduced a protocol for RFID tag group ownership transfer (GOT), i.e., transferring the ownership of a group of tags in one session. However, this paper shows that Zuo’s protocol is vulnerable to de-synchronization attack and tag impersonating in the presence of cheating old owner. This paper also proposes solutions to fix the security flaws of Zuo’s GOT protocol.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering (DCCS Lab), Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

    Hoda Jannati & Abolfazl Falahati

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  1. Department of Applied Informatics, University of East London , 156 Egnatio Street, 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Christos K. Georgiadis

  2. School of Architecture & Engineering, University of East London, Docklands Campus 4-6, University Way, E16 2RD, London, UK

    Hamid Jahankhani

  3. School of Architecture Computing & Engineering, University of East London, Docklands Campus 4-6 University Way, E16 2RD, London, UK

    Elias Pimenidis , Rabih Bashroush  & Ameer Al-Nemrat ,  & 

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Jannati, H., Falahati, A. (2012). Cryptanalysis and Enhancement of a Secure Group Ownership Transfer Protocol for RFID Tags. In: Georgiadis, C.K., Jahankhani, H., Pimenidis, E., Bashroush, R., Al-Nemrat, A. (eds) Global Security, Safety and Sustainability & e-Democracy. e-Democracy ICGS3 2011 2011. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 99. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33448-1_26

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