RFID Security

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Last week I wrote blog entries about two very different types of RFID stories. It has been interesting to see the follow up on each. #1 - BRIDGE paper on RFID Tag Security This week RFID Journal did a nice article about BRIDGE’s work: BRIDGE Researchers Demo Highly Secure EPC Gen [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher I try to contribute to the RFID Security blog every week. Today is Friday and I realized it has been over 2 weeks since my last entry. Why? Recently the news from the RFID industry has been slow and kind of boring (or for some, depressing) while the topic of [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The February issue of RFID Monthly, published by Reik Read of Robert W. Baird & Co., has an article called Privacy Stakes Raised, which first discusses Chris Paget’s recent efforts to collect the serial numbers from passport cards and electronic driver’s licenses in downtown San Francisco.  For details on this [...]

 Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Last week, in Got $250? Cloning Electronic Passport Cards I discussed the presentation that security researcher Chris Paget planned to give at the Shmoocon hacker convention.  The description of his talk says “$250 on eBay buys the necessary kit to clone the Electronic Drivers License and US Passport Card…” These [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Security researcher Chris Paget has developed a way to secretly sniff and clone electronic passport cards from 30 feet away with a used RFID reader from eBay. His efforts build off the work of researchers at the University of Washington and RSA, which last year found weaknesses in US passport [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The January/February 2009 issue of Technology Review, Published by MIT included this article – RFID’s Security Problem: Are U.S. passport cards and new state driver’s licenses with RFID truly secure? Since this is an MIT publication and I know this institution has researchers and alumni involved in the field of [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The commute to my (not at home) office is long enough that listening to the radio gets old so I have been raiding the “book on cd” shelf at the local library. As you can imagine, the number of audio books is much smaller then the old fashioned kind but [...]