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The left half is used to verify the identity of the tags, and the right half is used to verify the identity of the reader, which will reduce the tag\u2019s computation and storage. By updating the tag\u2019s secret key value and random number, the protocol can prevent most attacks existing in RFID systems such as data privacy, replay attack, fake attack, position tracking and asynchronous attack. The correctness of the protocol is proved by using Burrows-Abadi-Needham (BAN) logic analysis. The evaluation results show that the scalability of the protocol proposed is achieved with acceptable response time limits. 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