Paper 2015/713

Light-hHB: A New Version of hHB with Improved Session Key Exchange

Ka Ahmad Khoureich

Abstract

This paper offers a new version of the hHB protocol denoted Light-hHB. This proposal uses the same framework as hHB, that is a two stages protocol: the first one for the establishment of a session key between the reader and the tag and the second one similar to HB+. We also introduce in this paper a novel and lightweight key exchange protocol inspired by the BB84 protocol named the non-quantum key exchange protocol. With the use of a practical implementation of the latter protocol in the first stage of Light-hHB, the transmission cost is drastically reduced compared to the one of hHB, which is its main drawback. In the context of RFID tags, Light-hHB is significantly more practical than hHB and achieves the same security goals.

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Publication info
Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
BB84LPNHBhHBMan-In-the-Middle
Contact author(s)
ahmadkhoureich ka @ uadb edu sn
History
2016-10-31: withdrawn
2015-07-18: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2015/713
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY
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