Secure group ownership transfer protocol with independence of old owner for RFID tags

Lei He, Yong Gan, Yifeng Yin

COMPUTER MODELLING & NEW TECHNOLOGIES 2014 18(12B) 209-214

School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Dongfeng Road 5, Zhengzhou, China

It is important to transfer the ownership of multiple tags efficiently. We proposed a secure group ownership transfer protocol with independence of old owner. It can transfer multiple tags ownership simultaneously. Moreover, the protocol runs regardless of the location of old owner. We analyzed the protocol by using GNY logic. The result indicates that the protocol provides mutual authentication, independence of old owner, forward security and backward security. It resists replay attack, man-in-the-middle attack, desynchronization attack and tracking attack. We implemented and simulated our protocol and other protocols and obtain experimental data. The performance comparison infers that our protocol is efficient and suitable for low-cost tag.