Title
ElectroMagnetic Attack Test Platform for Validating RFID Tag Architectures
Abstract
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is more and more used in our daily life. Secure RFID communication is a mandatory factor in many sectors such as banking and ticketing. However, passive attacks as ElectroMagnetic Attacks (EMA) represent a serious threat for RFID tags. In this article, we propose an EMA test platform based on FPGA that allows validating RFID tag digital architectures and evaluating their security against EMA. First, we propose a tag architecture that respects the ISO/IEC 14443 type A and implements the Mifare Desfire authentication protocol. It requires 2713 LUTs (Look-Up Table) and consumes about 2 mW. Then, the EMA is performed against the block cipher embedded in this architecture with 3000 electromagnetic traces. Finally, in order to mitigate this attack, we propose a countermeasure based on a data-masking scheme (+128 LUTs) that prevents attacker to emulate the tag using a fake reader. This countermeasure hides the data input of the block cipher without modifying neither the encryption algorithm operations nor the authentication protocol as done in previous works.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/EURFID.2018.8611655
2018 6th International EURASIP Workshop on RFID Technology (EURFID)
Keywords
Field
DocType
RFID,ElectroMagnetic Attack (EMA),Tag architecture,ISO/IEC 14443 type A,Authentication protocol,Data-masking scheme
Countermeasure,Authentication,Block cipher,Computer science,Electromagnetics,Field-programmable gate array,Encryption,Authentication protocol,Radio-frequency identification,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2379-7541
978-1-5386-5939-7
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yassine Naija100.34
Vincent Beroulle28621.86
Machhout Mohsen32617.09