Dr. Dr. Kambombo Mtonga

Dr. Dr. Kambombo Mtonga

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Mathematics & Statistics

23 publications

Kambombo obtained his Bachelor of Education in Mathematics from the University of Malawi, a Msc of Engineering from Kyungil University, South Korea and a PhD in WiseNET from the University of Rwanda. He is an established researcher with research interests at the intersection of Mathematics and Tech...

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An Enhanced Mutual Key Agreement Protocol for Mobile RFID-enabled Devices

Journal Article
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Author
Dr. Dr. Kambombo Mtonga
Co-authors
Eun-Jun Yoon
Abstract
Mobile RFID is a new application that uses a mobile phone as an RFID reader with wireless technology and provides a new valuable service to users by integrating RFID and ubiquitous sensor network infrastructures with mobile communication and wireless Internet. Whereas the mobile RFID system has many advantages, privacy violation problems on the reader side are very concerning to individuals and researchers. Unlike in regular RFID environments, where the communication channel between the server and reader is assumed to be secure, the communication channel between the backend server and the RFID reader in the mobile RFID system is not assumed to be safe. Therefore it has become necessary to devise a new communication protocol that secures the privacy of mobile RFID-enabled devices. Recently, Lo et al. proposed a mutual key agreement protocol that secures the authenticity and privacy of engaged mobile RFID readers by constructing a secure session key between the reader and server. However, this paper shows that this protocol does not meet all of the necessary security requirements. Therefore we developed an enhanced mutual key agreement protocol for mobile RFID-enabled devices that alleviates these concerns. We further show that our protocol can enhance data security and provide privacy protection for the reader in an unsecured mobile RFID environment, even in the presence of an active adversary.
Year of Publication
2012
Journal Name
IEEK Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
Volume
1
Issue
1
Page Numbers
65-71
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