RFID Security

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 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 [...]