title: ECC-based grouping-proof RFID for inpatient medication safety.
abstract: Several papers were proposed in which symmetric cryptography was used to design RFID grouping-proof for medication safety in the Journal of Medical Systems. However, if we want to ensure privacy, authentication and protection against the tracking of RFID-tags without losing system scalability, we must design an asymmetric cryptography-based RFID. This paper will propose a new ECC-based grouping-proof for RFID. Our ECC-based grouping-proof reduces the computation of tags and prevents timeout problems from occurring in n-party grouping-proof protocol. Based on asymmetric cryptography, the proposed scheme is practical, secure and efficient for medication applications.
authors.affiliation: School of Information Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, People's Republic of China. linqp@126.com
authors.forename: Qiping
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Fangguo
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003219:Confidentiality; D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008510:Medication Systems, Hospital; D061214:Patient Safety; D057233:Radio Frequency Identification Device / Q000379:methods*