Bio:
Dr. Ari Juels is Chief Scientist and Director of RSA Laboratories, where he works to bring sparks of invention and insight from RSA's scientists and affiliates to the company as a whole. He joined RSA after receiving his Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley in 1996. In 2004, MIT's Technology Review Magazine named Dr. Juels one of the world's top 100 technology innovators under the age of 35 Computerworld honored him in its "40 Under 40" list in 2007.
Webpage: http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2029
RFID Security and Privacy: A Primer
Abstract:
Variously called "spychips," "next-generation barcodes," and enablers of "The Internet of Things," RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) tags are microchips that communicate via radio. In common use today, they may ultimately proliferate into a pervasive labelling infrastructure for most everything under the sun---consumer products, machine parts, documents, animals, and people. Given this promise, RFID tags call for well conceived anti-counterfeiting and data-privacy support. As cheap, constrained devices, though, they often cannot rely on time-tested data-security tools such as cryptography. Practical demands are likely to call for new approaches and expectations. This talk will be a general overview of the security and privacy problems posed by RFID and some of the solutions proposed by the research community.