Efficient P2P-based mutual authentication protocol for RFID system security of EPC network using asymmetric encryption algorithm

Internet of Things (IoT) is a new vision of the future technological ubiquity in ubiquitous computing, which becomes the mapping from the real world to the digital one. Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is a key enabler of the future IoT and it has a great economical potential. However, the RFID system uses of Electronic Product Code (EPC) tags can drastically threaten the security of applications. With the widespread use of RFID technology, its security problems become the hot topic in the academic and industrial fields. Aiming at the RFID network's security problems, we propose a novel P2P based RFID network architecture (P2P-RFID), and analyze the security problems in this kind of network. And a feasible and scalable protocol to guarantee P2P-RFID network security is also presented in this paper. The proposed protocol uses P2P storage technology together with the utilizing of asymmetric encryption algorithm (RSA) based authentication. An analysis proves that the presented protocol is secure. Moreover, the protocol authentication does not require a Certificate Authentication (CA) database, which avoids the single-point bottleneck.