Design and Implementation of Active Access Control System by Using NFC-based EAP-AKA Protocol

NFC (Near Field Communication) is widely used in day-to-day applications such as in credit cards and smartphones. thus, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is being replaced by NFC in many applications. However, the access control system operates on RFID. The existing RFID-based access control systems provide only passive communication, and the authentication process is fragile and vulnerable to malicious hacking because the user information is stored by the reader. Therefore, in this study, we designed and implemented an access control system that uses the NFC-based active authentication technique. To evaluate the system implemented in this study, we performed comparison analysis with the existing NFC security authentication protocols based on whether they provided mutual authentication and whether they could respond to major security threats. The evaluation results showed that the proposed protocol normally supported mutual authentication functions between NFC devices, and ensured secure wireless communications by tackling major security threats that might occur in NFC security authentication protocols.