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Quantitative evaluation of unlinkable ID matching schemes

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Yasunobu Nohara,

Sozo Inoue,

Kensuke Baba,

Hiroto YasuuraAuthors Info & Claims

WPES '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society

Pages 55 - 60

https://doi.org/10.1145/1102199.1102212

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As pervasive computing environments become popular, RFID devices, such as contactless smart cards and RFID tags, are introduced into our daily life. However, there exists a privacy problem that a third party can trace user's behavior by linking device's ID.The concept of unlinkability, that a third party cannot recognize whether some outputs are from the same user, is important to solve the privacy problem. A scheme using hash function satisfies unlinkability against a third party by changing the outputs of RFID devices every time. However, the schemes are not scalable since the server needs O(N) hash calculations for every ID matching, where N is the number of RFID devices.In this paper, we propose the K-steps ID matching scheme, which can reduce the number of the hash calculations on the server to O(log N). Secondly, we propose a quantification of unlinkability using conditional entropy and mutual information. Finally, we analyze the K-steps ID matching scheme using the proposed quantification, and show the relation between the time complexity and unlinkability.

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November 2005

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DOI:10.1145/1102199

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