RFID Security

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Smart Grid security covers a wide spectrum of technologies from fences and video cameras at the power generation facilities and substations to securing the data in the embedded systems and metering devices used to monitor and adjust a homeowner’s usage. These Smart Meter security issues have been in the news a lot recently. Elinor [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher SecureRF Corporation has received its first patent! The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted SecureRF U.S. Patent 7,649,999 for the world’s first cryptography method to run in linear time. The patented algorithm provides a key agreement protocol and a method for generating a secret key to facilitate secure [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher What is the difference between private key and public key cryptography? What is the difference between symmetric and asymmetric cryptography? What is the difference between Diffie-Hellman (Elliptic Curve) and RSA asymmetric cryptography methods? Since SecureRF’s Algebraic Eraser™ technology offers a combination of symmetric (i.e. private key or secret key) and [...]

Louis M. Parks, CEO of SecureRF Corporation, contributed a posting to The Connecticut Innovation Blog which appears today. Louis talks about the convergence of three trends: Aging security and cryptographic technologies The movement toward smaller computer platforms which may not be able to run these technologies The increase in computing power to attack and hack these systems [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The Security Research Group (SRG) of the BRIDGE project has put together a white paper called RFID Tag Security. You can view a copy of it here – http://www.bridge-project.eu/data/File/BridgesecuritypaperDL_9.pdf.  The objective of the report was to review their current RFID tag security activities and investigate future requirements.  It doesn’t report [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Louis Parks, President and CEO of SecureRF, spoke last month with eg3.com about security in the growing world of M2M (machine-to-machine) applications, especially in RFID, the RFID Security Alliance and SecureRF’s new SecureM2M SDK (software development kit) for developers. Anyone interested in embedded wireless, RFID, M2M, and of course security [...]

Contributed at Joanne C. Kelleher Chris Corum, executive editor at SecureID News wrote an interesting article about enforcing license agreements for crypto in the Smart Card industry (Monday, May 4, 2009).  Smart card vulnerability, license fees and patent law, discusses how Cryptography Research won a legal settlement against Visa and is now collecting licensing fees. [...]