RFID Encryption Broken

Thursday, Mar. 13 2008 | Author: Dave

I have always been worried about security and even more so as we place small radio transmitter chips on a variety of items. RFID tags, continue to be added at an increasing rate to the variety of shipments traveling the world, but it is quickly filtering down to the more common place world that we know and love. The Netherlands are using RFID tagged cards as part of their national payment system, and over one billion cards based on the Milfare Classic RFID chip are now at risk.

Two different teams have managed to crack the encryption on the chips, making it possible for hackers to make perfect clones of the cards, and creating a huge security issue.

The real question is how RFID tags will remain secure over the course of time as computers get better at helping crackers break encryption, will our data ever be safe in the hands of a radio frequency tag?

Source: Engadget

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RFID Encryption Broken

March 13th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
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[...] MSFN – Where People Go To Know wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt I have always been worried about security and even more so as we place small radio transmitter chips on a variety of items. RFID tags, continue to be added at an increasing rate to the variety of shipments traveling the world, but it is quickly filtering down to the more common place world that we know and love. The Netherlands are using RFID tagged cards as part of their national payment system, and over one billion cards based on the Milfare Classic RFID chip are now at risk. Two different t [...]
David

March 13th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
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Well, now you see. RFID, once hacked, is actually MORE insecure than current methods BECAUSE of the axiom of security that they a regarded with. Making a “perfect clone” of an RFID is something that moderators and users of an RFID system are inept to circumvent, and only creates another channel to be exploited for information and security vulnerabilities in itself and other related systems.

Governments forget one thing about the technology they trust: If it can be made, it be broken. People find a way. Life finds a way.

I know that at some point, people everywhere will reject this technology and others like RFID.