Design and implementation of a new active RFID authentication protocol based on elliptic curve encryption
Mustapha Benssalah, Mustapha Djeddou, Karim Drouiche · 2016 SAI Computing Conference (SAI) · 2016
RFID (radio frequency identification) is an efficient automatic identification technology used in a wide variety of applications and more recently as a leading authentication technology in many security services. However, the wireless nature of the transmitted data causes various security issues that must be addressed decisively. To solve these issues, numerous solutions and attempts have been proposed in the literature using several cryptographic primitives. Yet, it is still uncertain about the practicability of a significant number of these protocols, as their hardware implementation has not received much attention. In this paper, we deal with an efficient FPGA implementation and validation of an RFID authentication protocol based on elliptic curve (ECC) encryption scheme. As far as we know, this is the first FPGA implementation of an RFID authentication protocol based on ECC-ElGamal encryption. We believe that the proposed design architecture will bring a new clarity to others ECC-based protocols architectures. In addition, we illustrate the effectiveness of the implemented architecture in the car key systems.