Distributed Path Authentication for Dynamic RFID-Enabled Supply Chains

• Main Authors: CAI, Shaoying, LI, Yingjiu, ZHAO, Yunlei
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1655; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2654/viewcontent/SEC.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, we propose a distributed path authentication solution for dynamic RFID-enabled supply chains to address the counterfeiting problem. Compared to existing general anti-counterfeiting solutions, our solution requires non sharing of item-level RFID information among supply chain parties, thus eliminating the requirement on high network bandwidth and fine-grained access control. Our solution is secure, privacy-preserving, and practical. It leverages on the standard EPCglobal network to share information about paths and parties in path authentication. Our solution can be implemented on standard EPC class 1 generation 2 tags with only 720 bits storage and no computational capability.