BEST: a bidirectional efficiency-privacy transferable authentication protocol for RFID-enabled supply chain Online publication date: Sun, 26-Apr-2015
by Saiyu Qi; Li Lu; Zhenjiang Li; Mo Li
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), Vol. 18, No. 4, 2015
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.
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