RFID (radio frequency identification) is one of the most promising NFC (near field communication) technologies for pervasive and ubiquitous network societies in recent year. The main factor for more and more interests from both industry and academic institutes is due to the lower and lower costs, which may pose a threat to information security while RFID become part of our daily life because the lower cost, the weaker cryptographic algorithms provided by RFID tags. A feasible security mechanism for anti-counterfeiting and privacy protection is proposed that features mutual two-pass authentication and uses hash function and XOR operation to enhance the RFID tag's security but still with low cost. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is one of
the most promising NFC (Near Field Communication)
communication technologies for pervasive and ubiquitous
network societies in recent year [1,2]. The main factor for
more and more interests from both industry and academic
institutes is due to the lower and lower costs, which may
pose a threat to information security while RFID become
part of our daily life because the lower cost, the weaker
cryptographic algorithms provided by RFID tags. A feasible
security mechanism for anti-counterfeiting and privacy
protection is proposed that featuring mutual two-pass
authentication and use hash function and XOR operation to
enhance RFID tag's security but still with low cost.
