Title: BEST: a bidirectional efficiency-privacy transferable authentication protocol for RFID-enabled supply chain

Authors: Saiyu Qi; Li Lu; Zhenjiang Li; Mo Li

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong ' School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 610051, China ' School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore ' School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore

Abstract: Radio frequency identification (RFID) technique is gaining increasing popularity in supply chain for product management. By attaching a tag to each product, a reader can employ an authentication protocol to interrogate the tag's information for verification, which facilitates the automatic processing and monitoring of products in many applications. However, most current solutions can not be directly used as they can not balance the tradeoff between the privacy and efficiency for individual parties. In this paper, we design a bidirectional efficiency-privacy transferable (BEST) authentication protocol to address this issue. In a relatively secure domain, BEST works in an efficient manner to authenticate batches of tags with less privacy guarantee. Once the tags flow into open environment, BEST can migrate to provide stronger privacy protection to the tags with moderate efficiency degradation. The analytic result shows that BEST can well adapt to the RFID-enabled supply chain.

Keywords: RFID tags; radio frequency identification; product management; supply chain management; SCM; authentication protocols; privacy preservation; privacy protection; communication efficiency; wireless devices; secure protocols; dynamic requirements; bidirection transfer; RFID-enabled supply chains; security.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2015.069061

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2015 Vol.18 No.4, pp.234 - 244

Received: 24 Mar 2013
Accepted: 24 Sep 2013
Published online: 26 Apr 2015 *

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