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ECC-Based Grouping-Proof RFID for Inpatient Medication Safety

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Several papers were proposed in which symmetric cryptography was used to design RFID grouping-proof for medication safety in the Journal of Medical Systems. However, if we want to ensure privacy, authentication and protection against the tracking of RFID-tags without losing system scalability, we must design an asymmetric cryptography-based RFID. This paper will propose a new ECC-based grouping-proof for RFID. Our ECC-based grouping-proof reduces the computation of tags and prevents timeout problems from occurring in n-party grouping-proof protocol. Based on asymmetric cryptography, the proposed scheme is practical, secure and efficient for medication applications.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61070168).

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  1. School of Information Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, People’s Republic of China

    Qiping Lin & Fangguo Zhang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Fangguo Zhang

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Lin, Q., Zhang, F. ECC-Based Grouping-Proof RFID for Inpatient Medication Safety. J Med Syst 36, 3527–3531 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-011-9757-3

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