RFID Security

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Tomorrow, May 12, is the next RFID Security Alliance Meeting (via phone or in-person).  SecureRF CEO, Louis Parks, will be talking about his RFID security talk at last month’s INTERPHEX Pharmaceutical conference.  Other RFIDSA members are speaking about the conferences they have recently participated in.  See Insights into the Spring Conference Season for [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The RFID Security Alliance has changed the format of their monthly meetings and will now start with an open discussion of a topic of interest. The meetings can be joined in person in California or via conference call. This month Alliance member and security expert Lukas Grunwald will do a [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Karsten Nohl, the researcher and hacker who almost two years ago declared that Mifare was insecure, will be speaking at the January RFID Security Alliance meeting and recently made two presentations at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) conference – http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/speakers/1317.en.html .  These CCC presentations have received some widespread press.  [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Bert Moore, Editor of AIM Global’s RFID Connections newsletter, asked in today’s issue “Will this be the year that RFID security is finally implemented?” With the long lead time to get to a full project implementation, we think that Bert’s thesis is correct – although the timeframes may still continue [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher As I mentioned in my last post, the RFID Security Alliance was planning to hold an open discussion on two  topics at our December meeting: The current state of the RFID marketplace What may happen as RFID readers become more ubiquitious, such as in cell phones A summary of these discussions [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The RFID Security Alliance has changed the format of their monthly meetings and will now start with an open discussion of a topic of interest.  The meetings can be joined in person in California or via conference call. If you want to participate in today’s call (Wednesday, 12/2) on these topics, you are [...]

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 [...]