A note on ``HAKECC: highly efficient authentication and key agreement scheme based on ECDH for RFID in IOT environment''

ePrint Report: A note on ``HAKECC: highly efficient authentication and key agreement scheme based on ECDH for RFID in IOT environment''

Zhengjun Cao

We show that the Nikooghadam-Shahriari-Saeidi authentication and key agreement scheme [J. Inf. Secur. Appl., 76, 103523 (2023)]
cannot resist impersonation attack, not as claimed. An adversary can impersonate the RFID reader to cheat the RFID tag. The drawback results from its simple secret key invoking mechanism. We also find it seems difficult to revise the scheme due …

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