Title:	MUTUAL AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL FOR SECURE NFC BASED MOBILE HEALTHCARD
Author(s):	Divyashikha Sethia, Daya Gupta, Huzur Saran, Rishabh Agrawal, Amogh Gaur
ISBN:	978-989-8533-54-8
Editors:	Piet Kommers and Guo Chao Peng
Year:	2016
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Host Card Emulation; Near Field communication; secure element; mutual authentication; e-health card; patient health record
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	195
Last Page:	202
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled smart phones, have various applications in a variety of areas such as payment, ticketing and healthcare. Security is a major concern in these applications. Our main emphasis in this paper is on the application of NFC in healthcare systems. Electronic storage of patient information on health cards requires high security to ensure patient confidentiality and privacy as suggested in our previous work related to healthcards on NFC based devices and smartcard technology on tamper resistant Secure Element (SE) for storing credentials and secure data. We extend this work with proposal of mutual authentication protocol for secure interaction and Host Card Emulation (HCE) for valid patient and valid medical professional devices to directly interact through a simple tap without requiring any external reader. Secure Element based mutual authentication ensures right timely treatment is provided to a patient. We propose an architecture design, implementation and testing for Mutual Authentication (MA) using SE for NFC based healthcards over HCE which can be extended later to ubiquitous interfaces. The protocol ensures protection against a variety of attacks such as relay attacks, masquerading etc. Testing results indicate that although time is slow due to overheads of access of SE on java cards such as microSD card, it can be further improved by using higher version java cards or other tamper resistant solutions.
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