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A Hash Based Mutual RFID Tag Authentication Protocol in Telecare Medicine Information System

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology which has multidimensional applications to reduce the complexity of today life. Everywhere, like access control, transportation, real-time inventory, asset management and automated payment systems etc., RFID has its enormous use. Recently, this technology is opening its wings in healthcare environments, where potential applications include patient monitoring, object traceability and drug administration systems etc. In this paper, we propose a secure RFID-based protocol for the medical sector. This protocol is based on hash operation with synchronized secret. The protocol is safe against active and passive attacks such as forgery, traceability, replay and de-synchronization attack.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, CIPET, Lucknow, UP, India

    Keerti Srivastava

  2. Department of Applied Mathematics, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, 201310, UP, India

    Amit K. Awasthi & Sonam D. Kaul

  3. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, UA, India

    R. C. Mittal

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Srivastava, K., Awasthi, A.K., Kaul, S.D. et al. A Hash Based Mutual RFID Tag Authentication Protocol in Telecare Medicine Information System. J Med Syst 39, 153 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-014-0153-7

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