Jefferson's Wheel

The EETimes reports on our Mifare work after the news had gotten out in Germany through an article in the c’t magazine. Slashdot picked up on it as well and summarizes:

[T]he device is used in many contactless smartcard applications including fare collection, loyalty cards, and access control cards. NXP downplays the significance of the hack, saying that that model of RFID card uses old technology and they do a much better job these days.

One is left wondering why the old technology is then not replaced by those much better products that have been available for many years.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 at 12:01 am and is filed under Cryptography, RFID, Security.