RFID Security

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 [...]

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 Engineering researchers at The University of Arkansas recently announced that they “have developed a unique and robust method to prevent cloning of passive radio frequency identification tags. The technology, based on one or more unique physical attributes of individual tags rather than information stored on them, will prevent the production [...]

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 The 12/1/09 electronic version of Contactless News has an interesting article that overlaps my previous role in Human Resources with my current technology focus:  Privacy analysis necessary for access control systems  The article suggests that corporations need to keep abreast of any state legislation that may impact the use of [...]