RFID Security

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher PharmaTech, a publication for pharmaceutical manufacturers, reports that the Council of the EU and the European Parliament are amending the current anti-counterfeiting directive to include a requirement for features that enable the identification, authentication and traceability of prescription medicines. “The only way a specific product can be identified, authenticated and [...]

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 The New York Times recently had an Op-Ed piece titled “Are You Buying Illegal Drugs?” The contributors are Katherine Eban, the author of “Dangerous Doses: A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters and the Contamination of America’s Drug Supply” and J. Aaron Graham, a former agent for the Food and Drug [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher On March 20th, The New York Times covered a story of how a graduate engineering student in China, Wang Jianwei, had been described as a potential cyberwarrior before the United States Congress. “Mr. Wang said he and his professor had indeed published “Cascade-Based Attack Vulnerability on the U.S. Power Grid” in [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher I just received an email from ABI Research announcing their Annual RFID End User Survey top line results. Good news: “Nearly half (49%) of those respondents currently using, deploying, evaluating, or piloting RFID report that they expect their RFID budgets to increase in 2010.” Missing: The issue of RFID security. [...]

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 [...]