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A Novel Group Ownership Delegate Protocol for RFID Systems

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In recent years, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) applications of various kinds have been blooming. However, along with the stunning advancement have come all sorts of security and privacy issues, for RFID tags oftentimes store private data and so the permission to read a tag or any other kind of access needs to be carefully controlled. Therefore, of all the RFID-related researches released so far, a big portion focuses on the issue of authentication. There have been so many cases where the legal access to or control over a tag needs to be switched from one reader to another, which has encouraged the development of quite a number of different kinds of ownership transfer protocols. On the other hand, not only has the need for ownership transfer been increasing, but a part of it has also been evolving from individual ownership transfer into group ownership transfer. However, in spite of the growing need for practical group ownership transfer services, little research has been done to offer an answer to the need. In this paper, we shall present a new RFID time-bound group ownership delegate protocol based on homomorphic encryption and quadratic residues. In addition, in order to provide more comprehensive service, on top of mutual authentication and ownership delegation, we also offer options for the e-th time verification as well as the revocation of earlier delegation.

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This research was partially supported and funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C., under contract no.: MOST 106-3114-E-030-001.

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  1. Department of Library and Information Science, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, 24205, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Cheng-Chi Lee & Chung-Lun Cheng

  2. Department of Photonics and Communication Engineering, Asia University, Taichung, 413, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Cheng-Chi Lee

  3. Department of Information Management, Tainan University of Technology, Tainan, 710, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Chun-Ta Li

  4. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Yan-Ming Lai

  5. Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, 971 87, Lulea, Sweden

    Athanasios V. Vasilakos

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Lee, CC., Li, CT., Cheng, CL. et al. A Novel Group Ownership Delegate Protocol for RFID Systems. Inf Syst Front 21, 1153–1166 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-018-9835-x

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