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Journal of Medical Systems
Published in: Journal of Medical Systems 7/2016

01-07-2016 | Patient Facing Systems

A Provably Secure RFID Authentication Protocol Based on Elliptic Curve for Healthcare Environments

Authors: Mohammad Sabzinejad Farash, Omer Nawaz, Khalid Mahmood, Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry, Muhammad Khurram Khan

Published in: Journal of Medical Systems | Issue 7/2016

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Abstract

To enhance the quality of healthcare in the management of chronic disease, telecare medical information systems have increasingly been used. Very recently, Zhang and Qi (J. Med. Syst. 38(5):47, 32), and Zhao (J. Med. Syst. 38(5):46, 33) separately proposed two authentication schemes for telecare medical information systems using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. They claimed that their protocols achieve all security requirements including forward secrecy. However, this paper demonstrates that both Zhang and Qi’s scheme, and Zhao’s scheme could not provide forward secrecy. To augment the security, we propose an efficient RFID authentication scheme using elliptic curves for healthcare environments. The proposed RFID scheme is secure under common random oracle model.
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Metadata
Title
A Provably Secure RFID Authentication Protocol Based on Elliptic Curve for Healthcare Environments
Authors
Mohammad Sabzinejad Farash
Omer Nawaz
Khalid Mahmood
Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry
Muhammad Khurram Khan
Publication date
01-07-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Medical Systems / Issue 7/2016
Print ISSN: 0148-5598
Electronic ISSN: 1573-689X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-016-0521-6

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