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J3Gen: a PRNG for low-cost passive RFID
Joan Melià-Seguí1, Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí
1Department of Communications and Information Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. joan.melia@upf.edu
Abstract:
Pseudorandom number generation (PRNG) is the main security tool in low-cost passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) technologies, such as EPC Gen2. We present a lightweight PRNG design for low-cost passive RFID tags, named J3Gen. J3Gen is based on a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) configured with multiple feedback polynomials. The polynomials are alternated during the generation of sequences via a physical source of randomness. J3Gen successfully handles the inherent linearity of LFSR based PRNGs and satisfies the statistical requirements imposed by the EPC Gen2 standard. A hardware implementation of J3Gen is presented and evaluated with regard to different design parameters, defining the key-equivalence security and nonlinearity of the design. The results of a SPICE simulation confirm the power-consumption suitability of the proposal.
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