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01-10-2012 | Original Paper

A Secure Lightweight RFID Binding Proof Protocol for Medication Errors and Patient Safety

Authors: Shuhua Wu, Kefei Chen, Yuefei Zhu

Published in: Journal of Medical Systems | Issue 5/2012

Abstract

Quite recently, Yu et al. presented a real lightweight binding proof protocol to guard patient safety and prevent medication errors. In this paper, we first show their protocol is still vulnerable to impersonation attacks. Thereafter we propose a new lightweight binding proof protocol to overcome these weaknesses and securely achieve the goal of proving that two tags exist in the field simultaneously.

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Title: A Secure Lightweight RFID Binding Proof Protocol for Medication Errors and Patient Safety
Authors: Shuhua Wu
Kefei Chen
Yuefei Zhu
Publication date: 01-10-2012
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Medical Systems / Issue 5/2012
Print ISSN: 0148-5598
Electronic ISSN: 1573-689X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-011-9750-x

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A Secure Lightweight RFID Binding Proof Protocol for Medication Errors and Patient Safety

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