Authentication of personal identification has been pushed to the forefront of politics recently, but most of the debate has been surrounding the issuance of ID cards and RFID tagging.  However, these are not the only ways to ascertain identity as shown by a new finger vein scanning system developed in tandem by Hitachi and Sumitomo […]

Certicom and Texas Instruments are working on a means of storing encrypted authentication information on RFID chips. The chips are only 160 bits and use an ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) scheme which is as secure as a 1024-bit RSA (Rivest Shamir Adleman) public encryption key. The reduction in bit space is necessary, as most RFID […]

Memorabilia counterfeiters beware. RFID, LTD, is offering their Authentichip RFID chip to help authenticate estate collections. One of the first uses will be to authenticate Jimi Hendrix’s guitar strap and Wah-Wah pedal that gave him much of his sound. [via RFID News]
Authentichip isn’t an anti-theft system, though I wouldn’t be surprised if someone comes up […]