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A practical RFID authentication mechanism for digital television

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As information technology continuously progresses, more applied technologies are developed, such as radio frequency identification (RFID). In this paper, we propose a novel digital television (DTV) structure that uses RFID for encryption. RFID is widely used for various applications because of its advantages such as an extended lifetime and security, and it is less affected by environmental constraints. The proposed protocol uses RFID for encryption to withstand many attacks that the traditional system is vulnerable to, such as impersonation attack, replay attack and smart card cloning. Compared with other protocols, the proposed protocol is more secure and efficient. Thus, our proposed protocol makes the DTV framework more complete and secure.

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This research was partially supported by the National Science Council, Taiwan, R.O.C., under contract no.: NSC 101-2221-E-030-018 and NSC 101-2221-E-165-002.

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  1. Department of Library and Information Science, Fu Jen Catholic University, 510 Jhongjheng Road, Sinjhuang City, New Taipei City, 24205, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Cheng-Chi Lee & Ping-Hsien Wu

  2. Department of Photonics & Communication Engineering, Asia University, 500 Lioufeng Road, Taichung, 41354, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Cheng-Chi Lee

  3. Department of Distribution Management, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, 57, Sec. 2, Zhongshan Road, Taiping Dist., Taichung, 41170, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Chi-Tung Chen

  4. Department of Information Management, Tainan University of Technology, 529 Zhongzheng Road, Tainan, 71002, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Chun-Ta Li

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Lee, CC., Chen, CT., Li, CT. et al. A practical RFID authentication mechanism for digital television. Telecommun Syst 57, 239–246 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-013-9844-5

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