RFID-Based, Anonymous Authentication Scheme

Low cost radio frequency identification (RFID) like EPC Gen 2 is one kind of most popular RFIDs in the market. However, as studied by several researchers, Gen 2 is not secure. Therefore, many researchers have devoted to improving the security. However, in addition to the fact the security of these improved schemes are still questionable, these solutions inevitably increase the cost of tags and inevitably modify the standards, which cannot help those existing low-cost RFID industry and market. In this paper, we explore secure applications of low cost RFID like Gen 2 by thoroughly examine the security properties of Gen 2 RFID, and then propose an interesting and secure application of low cost RFID.