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Open AccessDesigning secure PUF-based authentication protocols for constrained environments
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are widely used in cryptographic authentication and key-agreement protocols due to their unique physical properties. This article presents a comprehensive cryptanalysis of ...
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ISAKA: Improved Secure Authentication and Key Agreement protocol for WBAN
Internet of Things (IoT) is a revolution which has influenced the lifestyle of human. Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN)s are IoT-based applications which have a crucial role in the current healthcare systems....
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\(TBGODP^+\) : improvement of TBGODP, a time bound group ownership delegation protocol
One of the challenging issues in RFID systems is the issue of group ownership transfer and ownership duration. To answer this need recently one protocol which combines group ownership transfer and time bound d...
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An authentication and key agreement scheme for smart grid
The Internet of Things (IoT) plays a crucial role in the new generation of smart cities, in which develo** Internet of Energy (IoE) in the energy sector is a necessity also. Several schemes have been propose...
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A New Searchable Encryption Scheme with Integrity Preservation Property
Searchable encryption schemes allow documents’ owners to store their encrypted documents on servers, search for the desired keyword and then download only the desired encrypted file and then decrypt. Storing f...
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SEOTP: a new secure and efficient ownership transfer protocol based on quadric residue and homomorphic encryption
In systems equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, several security concerns may arise when the ownership of a tag should be transferred from one owner to another, e.g. the confidential...
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A New Lightweight User Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for WSN
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most up-to-date and newest technologies that allows remote control of heterogeneous networks and has a good outlook for industrial applications. Wireless sensor netwo...
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Implementation of secret disclosure attack against two IoT lightweight authentication protocols
Recently, security of the Internet of things on mobile phones, especially the fifth generation (5G), has attracted much attention. In this regard, state-of-the-art authentication protocols have been proposed w...
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An improved low-cost yoking proof protocol based on Kazahaya’s flaws
Peris-Lopez et al. (J Netw Comput Appl 34:833–845, 2011) recently provided some guidelines that should be followed to design a secure yoking proof protocol. In addition, conforming to those guidelines and EPC C1-...
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Passive secret disclosure attack on an ultralightweight authentication protocol for Internet of Things
Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology in which for any object the ability to send data via communications networks is provided. Ensuring the security of Internet services and applications is an important fa...
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On the (Im)Possibility of Receiving Security Beyond 2 l Using an l-Bit PRNG
Recently, Wang et al. analyzed the security of two EPC C1–G2 compliant RFID authentication protocols, called RAPLT and $$\textit{SRP}^...
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Security Analysis of Niu et al. Authentication and Ownership Management Protocol
Over the past decade, besides authentication, ownership management protocols have been suggested to transfer or delegate the ownership of RFID tagged items. Recently, Niu et al. have proposed an authentication an...
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Cryptanalysis of a new EPC class-1 generation-2 standard compliant RFID protocol
EPC class 1 Generation-2 (or in short term EPC-C1 G2) is one of the most important standards for RFID passive tags. However, the original protocol is known to be insecure. To improve the security of this stand...
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Strengthening the Security of EPC C-1 G-2 RFID Standard
In this paper, we analyze the security of AZUMI protocol which is compliant with EPC-Class-1 Generation-2 standard and recently has been proposed by Peris et al. This protocol is an improvement to a protocol p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Desynchronization and Traceability Attacks on RIPTA-DA Protocol
Recently Gao et al. proposed a lightweight RFID mutual authentication protocol [3] to resist against intermittent position trace attacks and desynchronization attacks and called it RIPTA-DA. They also verified th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the Security of Two RFID Mutual Authentication Protocols
In this paper, the security of two recent RFID mutual authentication protocols are investigated. The first protocol is a scheme proposed by Huang et al. [7] and the second one by Huang, Lin and Li [6]. We show th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the Security of Tan et al. Serverless RFID Authentication and Search Protocols
In this paper, we analyze the security of the mutual authentication and search protocols recently proposed by Tan et al. [20]. Our security analysis clearly highlights important security pitfalls in these. More p...
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On the Designing of a Tamper Resistant Prescription RFID Access Control System
Recently, Chen et al. have proposed a novel tamper resistant prescription RFID access control system, published in the Journal of Medical Systems. In this paper we consider the security of the proposed protoco...
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Another Fallen Hash-Based RFID Authentication Protocol
In this paper, we scrutinize the security of an RFID protocol [9], which has been recently proposed, and show important vulnerabilities. Our first attack is a passive one that can disclose all secret informati...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the Security of Mutual Authentication Protocols for RFID Systems: The Case of Wei et al.’s Protocol
Authentication is one of the most basic and important cryptographic tasks. Mutual authentication protocols play a crucial role on the security of RFID systems. In this paper, we consider the security of a rece...
