An Active Attack Against HB+ - A Provably Secure Lightweight Authentication Protocol

Henri Gilbert; Matt Robshaw; Herve Sibert

Paper 2005/237 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2005/237 ↗

An Active Attack Against HB+ - A Provably Secure Lightweight Authentication Protocol

Henri Gilbert

Matt Robshaw

Herve Sibert

Abstract

Much research has focused on providing RFID tags with lightweight cryptographic functionality. The HB+ authentication protocol was recently proposed and claimed to be secure against both passive and active attacks. In this note we propose a linear-time active attack against HB+.

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Available format(s): PDF
Publication info: Preprint.
History: 2005-07-30: last updated; 2005-07-30: published
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2005/237
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2005/237,
      author = {Henri Gilbert and Matt Robshaw and Herve Sibert},
      title = {An Active Attack Against HB+ - A Provably Secure Lightweight Authentication Protocol},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2005/237},
      year = {2005},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/237}
}