Active attack against HB+: a provably secure lightweight authentication protocol

1 January 2005

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 41 (21), 1169-1170
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:20052622

Abstract

Much research has focused on providing RFID tags with lightweight cryptographic functionality. The HB+ authentication protocol was recently proposed and claimed to be secure against both passive and active attacks. A linear-time active attack against HB+ is proposed.

Keywords

LINEAR-TIME ACTIVE ATTACK
LIGHTWEIGHT AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL
PASSIVE/ACTIVE ATTACKS
RFID TAGS
LIGHTWEIGHT CRYPTOGRAPHIC FUNCTIONALITY
PROVABLY SECURE PROTOCOL
HB+ AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Secure Human Identification Protocols
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2001
Techniques for Low Cost Authentication and Message Authentication
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2000

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