Boffins working on RFID super-shield.
Boffins working on RFID super-shield: “Guarding the guards
A group of Dutch researchers at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, led by PhD student Melanie Rieback, is building RFID Guardian, a personal RFID firewall to allow individuals to monitor and control access to RFID tags.…
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The project aims to create a platform that will handle all types of RFID chips and allows individuals to create their own personalised security policies and enforce them using features already built into the tags such as cryptography and kill commands along with newer ones such as automatic key management.
When it’s finished, RFID Guardian is intended to be a portable, battery-operated device incorporating an RFID reader that will tell users when new RFID tags appear (for example, when you buy a tagged item), when they’re being read, and who owns them.
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(Via The Register – Security.)
[Privacy Digest: Privacy News (Civil Rights, Encryption, Free Speech, Cryptography)]
I suspect this project may end up being quietly killed off by local government, but if it actually does succeed I’d certainly buy one of their RFID Guardians.
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