Paper 2005/237

An Active Attack Against HB+ - A Provably Secure Lightweight Authentication Protocol

Henri Gilbert, Matt Robshaw, and Herve Sibert

Abstract

Much research has focused on providing RFID tags with lightweight cryptographic functionality. The HB+ authentication protocol was recently proposed and claimed to be secure against both passive and active attacks. In this note we propose a linear-time active attack against HB+.

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Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
RFIDprivacylow-cost cryptographyauthentication
Contact author(s)
matt robshaw @ francetelecom com
History
2005-07-30: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2005/237
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2005/237,
      author = {Henri Gilbert and Matt Robshaw and Herve Sibert},
      title = {An Active Attack Against HB+ - A Provably Secure Lightweight Authentication Protocol},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2005/237},
      year = {2005},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/237}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/237}
}
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