SCARA: A framework for secure cloud-assisted RFID authentication for smart building access control

Al-Sudani, AR; Zhou, W; Wen, S; Al-Mansoori, A

SCARA: A framework for secure cloud-assisted RFID authentication for smart building access control

Al-Sudani, AR Zhou, W

Wen, S Al-Mansoori, A

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Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2018, 11058 LNCS pp. 202 - 211
Issue Date:: 2018-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Al-Sudani, AR	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Zhou, W https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1680-2521	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Wen, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Al-Mansoori, A	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2018, 11058 LNCS pp. 202 - 211	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9783030027438	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0302-9743	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/133597
dc.description.abstract	© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018. Managing security in an RFID system is a complex activity considering that it is imperatively challenging to implement trust among tags and readers. There is always the chance that an unauthorized individual might assume the identity of a trusted tag and manage to gain confidential data in an RFID system. The situation becomes worse in systems that use a backend server and a private Internet connection. In such a system, there is no comprehensive mechanism for authenticating a tag into the system. It is thus essential to consider the implementation of a robust framework that improves the trust and the authentication levels in an RFID system. In this paper, a system known as Secure Cloud-Assisted RFID Authentication (SCARA) is proposed, which uses cloud-assisted RFID authentication to reap benefits of cloud-like scalability, availability and fault tolerance. It has three parties such as a cloud server, RFID reader and issuer involved. Issuer provides system parameters to other parties through a secure channel. Server and RFID reader are included in the authentication process with the help of information obtained from the issuer. The proposed system is secure even if the private keys associated with server and RFID tag are compromised. It does mean that it can prevent server-side insider attack in addition to external attacks. Amazon EC2 is used to have experiments. We built a prototype application to demonstrate proof of the concept. The empirical results revealed that the proposed system is able to withstand various kinds of attacks and provides a more efficient solution with less overhead.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/978-3-030-02744-5_15	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	en_US
dc.title	SCARA: A framework for secure cloud-assisted RFID authentication for smart building access control	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.citation.volume	11058 LNCS	en_US
utslib.for	0805 Distributed Computing	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Computer Science
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018. Managing security in an RFID system is a complex activity considering that it is imperatively challenging to implement trust among tags and readers. There is always the chance that an unauthorized individual might assume the identity of a trusted tag and manage to gain confidential data in an RFID system. The situation becomes worse in systems that use a backend server and a private Internet connection. In such a system, there is no comprehensive mechanism for authenticating a tag into the system. It is thus essential to consider the implementation of a robust framework that improves the trust and the authentication levels in an RFID system. In this paper, a system known as Secure Cloud-Assisted RFID Authentication (SCARA) is proposed, which uses cloud-assisted RFID authentication to reap benefits of cloud-like scalability, availability and fault tolerance. It has three parties such as a cloud server, RFID reader and issuer involved. Issuer provides system parameters to other parties through a secure channel. Server and RFID reader are included in the authentication process with the help of information obtained from the issuer. The proposed system is secure even if the private keys associated with server and RFID tag are compromised. It does mean that it can prevent server-side insider attack in addition to external attacks. Amazon EC2 is used to have experiments. We built a prototype application to demonstrate proof of the concept. The empirical results revealed that the proposed system is able to withstand various kinds of attacks and provides a more efficient solution with less overhead.

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