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MIT Reveals "Hack-Proof" RFID Chip (thestack.com)
JustAnotherOldGuy writes: A group of researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments claim that they have developed a new radio frequency identification chip that may be impossible to hack. Traditional RFID chips are vulnerable to side-channel attacks, whereby a hacker can extract a cryptographic key from the chip. The new RFID chip runs a random-number generator that creates a new secret key after each transaction. The key can then be verified with a server to ensure that it is correct. The group at MIT also incorporated protection against a power-glitch attack, an attack that would normally leave a chip vulnerable to an interruption of the power source that would in turn halt the creation of a new secret key. Texas Instruments CTO Ahmad Bahai stated, "We believe this research is an important step toward the goal of a robust, lo-cost, low-power authentication protocol for the industrial internet." The question is, how long will it be before this "hack proof" chip is hacked?
Hackproof, unsinkable, indestructible ... at a certain point the superlatives just become meaningless.
The be truly hack proof it needs no inputs and no outputs. It would be useless, but it would be hackproof.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
TFA says it has its own power supply. Presumably a battery. Kinda breaks the most important feature of RFID.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
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