The counterfeiting problem affects manufactures, distributors,governments and consumers. Brand owners need techniques for guaranteeing the authenticity of their products in today’s global marketplace. Radio-
frequency identification (RFID) is considered as a promising approach because it provides an extensible,flexible and secure measure to combat counterfeiting. Several RFID anti-counterfeiting mechanisms have
been proposed in resent years. In this paper, we present a new lightweight anti-counterfeiting authentication scheme that can be applied in low-cost RFID system.