Security Authentication Study Of Anti-cloning Tag

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a non-contact automatic identification technology. Ituses radio frequency by space coupling that enables wireless data transmission and can identifyobjects attached with tags at distance without any contacts. This identification does not need anymanual intervention and can be applied in a variety of poor environments. However, with the rapiddevelopment of RFID system and widely use of tag applications, security problems, especiallyprivacy problems of users, has become increasingly serious. How to design a good securitymechanism for RFID system to provide a safe working environment under very limited conditionshas become one of the key issues for RFID’s widely application.In this paper, firstly, we analyzed the security issues we are facing right now. Then weproposed a lightweight mutual authentication protocol using PUF(LMAPP) to prevent tag cloningafter summarizing some existing security protocols. LMAPP combines the physical properties ofPUF circuit embedded in the anti-clone tags with some simple bit operations to achieve mutualauthentication between the tag and the reader. By using formal analysis and C language to simulateattack model, we demonstrated the robustness of the protocol.In addition, taking into account the phenomenon of ownership changing which often occurs inpractical applications, we proposed a lightweight ownership transfer protocol (LOTPP) to achieve asafe ownership transfer. This protocol can also resist reply attack, desynchronization attack,tampering attack, in order to protecting the old and the new owner’s private information.