A novel mutual authentication scheme for low-cost RFID systems

The importance of radio frequency identification (RFID) increases for its powerful capabilities for identifying, locating and automatic access control objects. Electronic Product Code Class 1 Generation 2 (EPC-C1G2) is served as the most popular standard for passive RFID tags. In the last year several schemes were proposed to improve security of EPC-C1G2, most of these schemes still vulnerable and cannot resist some attacks and others schemes exceeds the powerful computing capacity of passive tag. In this paper, we propose a new authentication mutual scheme compliant to EPC-C1G2 standard. The proposed scheme uses only ultra-lightweight operations, Cyclic Redundancy Code (CRC), exclusive OR (XOR) and Pseudo Random Number Generators (PRNG). We have demonstrated that proposed scheme resist against security attacks and more that is better than the previous schemes in terms of the communication and computation cost. © 2016 IEEE.