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2880 JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS, VOL. 8, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2013 A Lightweight RFID Authentication Protocol based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography Ya-li Liu College of Computer Science Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China College of Computer Science Technology, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China Email: lyl1980115@163.com or ylliu@ Xiao-lin Qin*, Chao Wang, Bo-han Li College of Computer Science Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China Email: {qinxcs@, wangc0809@163.com, bhli@} Abstract—The security and privacy of the tag carrier has fundamental solution to various security threats in RFID become the bottle neck of Radio Frequency Identification system. However, it is difficult to provide secure and (RFID) system development further. In this paper, we privacy-preserving authentication protocols [6] in propose a robust authentication protocol based on Elliptic extremely constrained RFID systems with respect to Curve Cryptography (ECC), which meets the requirement of resource-limited RFID systems. Our protocol achieves memory, power, and energy of the tags. mutual authentication and possesses lightweight feature by Public Key Cryptography (PKC) based authentication reducing the computation cost over the tag end. Moreover, significantly simplies the distribution of cryptographic the proposed protocol possesses remarkable security keys. Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is emerging as properties in RFID system and the immunity against the an attractive public-ke