Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2008/083

On the Security of Chien's Ultralightweight RFID Authentication Protocol

Hung-Min Sun, Wei-Chih Ting, and King-Hang Wang

Abstract: Recently, Chien proposed an ultralightweight RFID authentication protocol to prevent all possible attacks. However, we find two de-synchronization attacks to break the protocol.

Category / Keywords: cryptographic protocols / RFID, cryptanalysis, identification protocols

Date: received 25 Feb 2008

Contact author: hmsun at cs nthu edu tw

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