Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2009/380

Untraceable Tags based on Mild Assumptions

Carlo Blundo and Angelo De Caro and Giuseppe Persiano

Abstract: Radio frequency identification (RFID) chips have been widely deployed in large-scale systems such as inventory control and supply chain management. While RFID technology has much advantage, however it may create new problems to privacy. Tag untraceability is a significant concern that needs to be addressed in deploying RFID-based system.

In this paper we propose a new construction for untraceable tags. Our construction is the first construction in the symmetric bilinear setting based on a mild assumption. That is our assumption is tautological in the generic group model and is ``efficiently falsifiable'' in the sense that its problem instances are stated non-interactively and concisely (i.e., independently of the number of adversarial queries and other large quantities).

Category / Keywords: public-key cryptography / RFID, untraceable tags

Publication Info: Full version of the paper accepted at SETOP 2009 (International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security)

Date: received 3 Aug 2009, last revised 3 Aug 2009

Contact author: carblu at dia unisa it

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Short URL: ia.cr/2009/380

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