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A Pre-computable Signature Scheme with Efficient Verification for RFID

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Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC 2012)

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Passive RFID tags have limited rewritable memory for data storage and limited computation power, which pose difficulties to implement security protection on RFID tags. It has been shown that strong security and privacy protections for RFID require utilizing public-key cryptography. Unfortunately, the implementation of public key cryptography is infeasible in low-cost passive tags. With this issue in mind, in this work, we propose a pre-computable signature scheme with a very efficient signature verification algorithm for RFID applications. Our signature scheme is provably secure under the DDH assumption and a variant of q-SDH assumption. With pre-computations, no exponentiation is required in our signature verification. Our research shows that it is feasible for low-cost RFID tags to verify signatures with the basic modular multiplication only (if they have a small amount of writable memory).

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  1. Centre for Computer and Information Security Research, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

    Fuchun Guo, Yi Mu & Willy Susilo

  2. Information and Networked Systems Security Research, Department of Computing, Faculty of Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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Guo, F., Mu, Y., Susilo, W., Varadharajan, V. (2012). A Pre-computable Signature Scheme with Efficient Verification for RFID. In: Ryan, M.D., Smyth, B., Wang, G. (eds) Information Security Practice and Experience. ISPEC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7232. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29101-2_1

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