Enhancement of the Mutual Authentication protocol on RFID Passive Tags

Abstract

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is being deployed for a wide variety of applications, including supply chain management, inventory, storage, etc. However, RFID systems can have security problems if the tag offers no access control and certificated mechanisms. By utilizing responses from a tag, an adversary may try to obtain the information of the product and trace the user. In 2006, Lee et al. proposed a mutual authentication scheme based on synchronized secret information. They show their scheme offers the most enhanced security feature in RFID mutual authentication to protect a user's privacy and possesses a low computation for tags. However, we will show that Lee et al's scheme is still susceptible to a forgery attack. We also present a simple method to strengthen its security.