Research Status on RFID System Authentication Protocol

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has a great impact on our daily lives. Its fast, efficient, simple, non-visual reading and ability to adapt to a variety of harsh environments make it popular with all walks of life. At present, RFID is used in logistics, military security, identification, industrial control, retail, anti-theft, anti-counterfeiting and many other fields. However, due to its characteristics of no need to touch, no need for visual, wireless transmission, signal broadcasting, and limited resources, RFID technology has potential safety hazards. This paper reviewed the research status of RFID system authentication protocols. We presented the components of the RFID system and discuss a taxonomy of authentication protocol for the RFID system which mainly based on Hash, Elliptic Curve cryptography (ECC) and Physical unclonable function(PUF). This paper also presented three factors that affect the performance of the authentication protocol and presented a proposal.