TITLE:
RFID Anti-Counterfeiting for Retailing Systems
AUTHORS:
Duy-Thinh Tran, Sung Je Hong
KEYWORDS:
Secure RFID System, Authentication, Identification, Cryptographic One-Way Function, Counterfeiting, Anti-Counterfeiting, Lightweight
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics,
Vol.3 No.1,
January
28,
2015
ABSTRACT: Counterfeiting is one of the most serious
problems in the consumer market. One promising approach for anti-counterfeiting
is to attach a low-cost Radio-frequency Identification (RFID) tag to the
product authentication. In this paper, we propose an RFID system for detecting
counterfeiting products. This RFID system consists of the tag authentication
protocol and the database correction protocol. We use the tag authentication
protocol for authenticating tags without revealing their sensitive information.
This protocol also allows the customer to freely inquire the tag. To prevent
the widespread of the counterfeit products, we use the tag status information
along with tag identity information. Meanwhile, the database correction
protocol guarantees the correctness of the tag status. Our anti-counterfeiting
system is the first work considering the seller who plays an important role in
the consumer product supply chain. Finally, we show that anti-counterfeiting
system is quite secure against counterfeiting and the tag authentication
protocol is lightweight enough to be implemented in RFID-based applications.