Paper 2010/402
On the Security of Non-Linear HB (NLHB) Protocol Against Passive Attack
Mohammad Reza Sohizadeh Abyaneh
Abstract
As a variant of the HB authentication protocol for RFID systems, which relies on the complexity of decoding linear codes against passive attacks, Madhavan et al. presented Non-Linear HB(NLHB) protocol. In contrast to HB, NLHB relies on the complexity of decoding a class of non-linear codes to render the passive attacks proposed against HB ineective. In this paper, we show that passive attacks against HB protocol can still be applicable to NLHB and this protocol does not provide the desired security margin. In our attack, we rst linearize the non-linear part of NLHB to obtain a HB equivalent for NLHB, and then exploit the passive attack techniques proposed for the HB to evaluate the security margin of NLHB. The results show that although NLHB's security margin is relatively higher than HB against similar passive attack techniques, it has been overestimated and, in contrary to what is claimed, NLHB is vulnerable to passive attacks against HB, especially when the noise vector in the protocol has a low weight.
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- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
- Keywords
- RFIDAuthenticationLPN problemHB protocols
- Contact author(s)
- reza sohizadeh @ ii uib no
- History
- 2010-10-08: revised
- 2010-07-18: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2010/402
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2010/402,
author = {Mohammad Reza Sohizadeh Abyaneh},
title = {On the Security of Non-Linear {HB} ({NLHB}) Protocol Against Passive Attack},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2010/402},
year = {2010},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/402}
}
