Title
HB♭ protocol for lightweight authentication; Its information theoretic indistinguishability against MITM attack watching reader's response
Abstract
A lightweight authentication protocol, based on the hardness of the Learning Parity with Noise (LPN) problem, was first designed by Hopper and Blum (HB) in 2001. The protocol is practical for low-cost pervasive devices like RFID, and a lot of varieties were investigated for further improvements about communication complexity and about security. In this paper, on HBb protocol recently proposed as an augmented version avoiding many practical drawbacks in the previously existing versions, we show that the information theoretic indistinguishability can be safely proven against MITM attack in which the attacker can utilize information obtained by watching response of the RFID reader to the communication signals intervened by the attacker. Through the proof, we find that the property holds for rather wide parameter range whereas very tiny range of parameter was indicated as an concrete example in the previous paper where the protocol was originally proposed.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2012
ISITA
communication signal intervention,data privacy,security,reader response,Hopper and Blum,low-cost pervasive device,RFID reader,communication complexity,learning parity with noise problem,information theoretic indistinguishability,radiofrequency identification,HBb lightweight authentication protocol,cryptographic protocols,MITM attack,LPN problem
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4673-2521-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xuedi Song100.34
kazukuni kobara238747.00
Kentaro Imafuku351.08
Hideki Imai461543.56