RFID Chips’s Identification Method Wins The Best Paper Award

Filed in archive RFID Basics on September 22, 2011

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Recently, Krzysztof Pietrzak (CWI) and an international team won the Best Paper Award at Eurocrypt 2011 in Tallinn. Researchers have found new simple ways for cryptographic authentication. The new methods can also be implemented on RFID chips, which are used in electronic passports and the OV chip cards.

Many electronic identification devices use RFID chips nowadays. RFID chips had been invented by cryptographers Hopper and Blum in 2001. A prototype of the RFID chip is being implemented at the Ruhr-University Bochum in Amsterdam. In future, these new techniques will be used to accomplish other cryptographic tasks than authentication, like encryption schemes.
Krzysztof Pietrzak, a member of the CWI research group Cryptology and Information Security investigates elementary questions about cryptography from a broad scientific point of view, especially mathematics, computer science and physics.