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A Secure Lightweight RFID Binding Proof Protocol for Medication Errors and Patient Safety

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Quite recently, Yu et al. presented a real lightweight binding proof protocol to guard patient safety and prevent medication errors. In this paper, we first show their protocol is still vulnerable to impersonation attacks. Thereafter we propose a new lightweight binding proof protocol to overcome these weaknesses and securely achieve the goal of proving that two tags exist in the field simultaneously.

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Correspondence to Shuhua Wu.

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60970111, No. 61101112), the National Basic Research Program (973) of China (No. 2007CB311201).

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Wu, S., Chen, K. & Zhu, Y. A Secure Lightweight RFID Binding Proof Protocol for Medication Errors and Patient Safety. J Med Syst 36, 2743–2749 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-011-9750-x

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