A Realistic Lightweight PUF-based Mutual Authentication in RFID Environments

This research proposes a realistic mutual authentication protocol using non-ideal PUF in an RFID environment. Initially, we evaluate and show the weaknesses of two popular schemes, Gope et al.'s and Feng Zhu et al.'s schemes; based on our investigation, their schemes fail to achieve several security features and cannot withstand various attacks. Later, we propose a new scheme to resolve the problem their schemes and provide the solution for the RFID security problem generically. Analyzes informal and formal are used to ensure that our proposal fulfills security properties and withstands various attacks.