Strong Authentication for RFID Systems Using the AES Algorithm

By Martin Feldhofer, Sandra Dominikus, Johannes Wolkerstorfer. Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 2004

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Hardware and Architecture, Media Technology

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A Lightweight RFID Protocol to protect against Traceability and Cloning attacks (2005, background): “Although it is a general belief that cryptographic components may not be suitable for low-cost tags, recent work [11] has led to more compact implementations of symmetric key primitives and in particular the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for RFIDs.”
Design and Implementation of Low-Area and Low-Power AES Encryption Hardware Core (2006, background): “According to our knowledge, only two 8-bit AES ASICs have previously been reported in the academic literature [4] [5].”
A Scalable, Delegatable Pseudonym Protocol Enabling Ownership Transfer of RFID Tags (2005, result): “Recent results on low-gate-count implementations of AES suggest that AES may be within reach for all but the lowest-end RFID tags [2].”
Authenticating Pervasive Devices with Human Protocols (2005, background): “Although recent light-weight AES implementations require approximately 5,000 gates [11], this is still too expensive for today’s EPC tags.”
The communication and computation cost of wireless security: extended abstract (2011, methodology): “[4] proposed to employ these symmetric challenge-response protocols in the context of RFID networks, using the symmetric block cipher AES.”
RFID security and privacy: a research survey (2006, background): “• Feldhofer, Dominikus, and Wolkerstorfer [19] propose a lightweight hardware implementation of a symmetric-key cipher, namely, a 128-bit version of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).”
Reverse-Engineering a Cryptographic RFID Tag (2008, background): “For example, the smallest known implementation of the AES block cipher (which was specifically designed for RFID tags) requires 3400 GEs [7].”
EMAP: An Efficient Mutual-Authentication Protocol for Low-Cost RFID Tags (2006, background): “So, if we consider that the clock frequency is set to 100KHz [3], this means that the tag answers in 11.”
M2AP: A Minimalist Mutual-Authentication Protocol for Low-Cost RFID Tags (2006, background): “7K Gates Yksel [14] MD5 16K Gates Helion [10] Fast SHA-1 20K Gates Helion [10] Fast SHA-256 23K Gates Helion [10] AES Unit(2) JungFL [6] 3089 Gates E/D/RK(2) +/+/+ Feldhofer [4] 3595 Gates E/D/RK(1) +/+/+ Amphion CS5265 [1] 25000 Gates E/D/RK(1) +/+/+”
Masked Dual-Rail Pre-charge Logic: DPA-Resistance Without Routing Constraints (2005, methodology): “In a second experiment, we have simulated the power traces of an AES module [4] while it encrypts different data blocks.”
A scalable and provably secure hash-based RFID protocol (2005, methodology): “The size of s is chosen to be 128 bits, in order to be compatible with [3].”
mCrypton - A Lightweight Block Cipher for Security of Low-Cost RFID Tags and Sensors (2005, methodology): “3 ,U [1] ,U [2] ,U [ 3 ] � 8”
On Privacy Models for RFID (2007, methodology): “Many simple challenge-response protocols have been proposed without addressing corruption [14,28,39].”
PRESENT: An Ultra-Lightweight Block Cipher (2007, background): “For modern block ciphers, the landmark paper of [16] gives a very thorough analysis of a low-cost implementation of the AES [35].”
Design and Implementation of PUF-Based "Unclonable" RFID ICs for Anti-Counterfeiting and Security Applications (2008, methodology): “Even minimalist implementations of AES and SHA-1 take thousands of (or tens of thousand) gates and thousands of clock cycles [ 2 , 3]. In this paper, we described the PUFbased technique that can be applied even to low-cost RFIDs and reported the experimental results from fabricated RFID tags.”
The Internet of Things: A survey (2010, background): “In this context, a few solutions have been proposed for light symmetric key cryptographic schemes (see [83,84] for RFID scenarios and [78] for sensor network scenarios).”