Paper 2009/332 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2009/332 ↗

Untraceable RFID protocols are not trivially composable: Attacks on the revision of EC-RAC

Ton van Deursen
Sasa Radomirovic
Abstract

It is well-known that protocols that satisfy a security property when executed in isolation do not necessarily satisfy the same security property when they are executed in an environment containing other protocols. We demonstrate this fact on a family of recently proposed RFID protocols by Lee, Batina, and Verbauwhede. We invalidate the authentication and untraceability claims made for several of the family's protocols. We also present man-in-the-middle attacks on untraceability in all of the protocols in the family. Similar attacks can be carried out on some other protocols in the literature, as well. We briefly indicate how to repair the protocols.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF
Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2009-07-08: last updated
2009-07-07: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2009/332
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2009/332,
      author = {Ton van Deursen and Sasa Radomirovic},
      title = {Untraceable RFID protocols are not trivially composable: Attacks on the revision of EC-RAC},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2009/332},
      year = {2009},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/332}
}
Note: In order to protect the privacy of readers, this archive does not use cookies or embedded third party content.