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A Secure RFID Mutual Authentication Protocol for Healthcare Environments Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography

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Radio Frequency Identification(RFID) is an automatic identification technology, which can be widely used in healthcare environments to locate and track staff, equipment and patients. However, potential security and privacy problems in RFID system remain a challenge. In this paper, we design a mutual authentication protocol for RFID based on elliptic curve cryptography(ECC). We use pre-computing method within tag’s communication, so that our protocol can get better efficiency. In terms of security, our protocol can achieve confidentiality, unforgeability, mutual authentication, tag’s anonymity, availability and forward security. Our protocol also can overcome the weakness in the existing protocols. Therefore, our protocol is suitable for healthcare environments.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.61272525 and 61370203)and Science and Technology on Communication Security Laboratory Foundation (NO.9140C110301110C1103).

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    Chunhua Jin, Chunxiang Xu, Xiaojun Zhang & Jining Zhao

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Jin, C., Xu, C., Zhang, X. et al. A Secure RFID Mutual Authentication Protocol for Healthcare Environments Using Elliptic Curve Cryptography. J Med Syst 39, 24 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-015-0213-7

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