[ml] Seminario su RFID security...

Ciao,

vi volevo segnalare che, oltre al seminario che terra' ad Infosecurity
per Sikurezza.Org, Melanie Rieback terra' presso il Dipartimento di
Elettronica ed Informazione del Politecnico di Milano il seguente
seminario il giorno 05/02/2007 alle ore 15.30 in sala Conferenze:

*** RFID Guardian: A Personal Platform for RFID Privacy Management ***

Relatrice: Melanie Rieback, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

Abstract:

This talk will present the design and implementation of the RFID
Guardian, the first-ever unified platform for RFID security and privacy
administration. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are
remotely-powered data carriers, that are often touted as "computers of
the future", that bring intelligence to our homes and offices, optimize
our supply chains, and keep a watchful eye on our pets, livestock, and kids.
The RFID Guardian resembles an "RFID firewall", enabling individuals to
monitor and control access to their RFID tags by combining a
standard-issue RFID reader with unique RFID tag emulation capabilities.
Our system provides a platform for coordinated usage of RFID security
mechanisms, offering fine-grained control over RFID-based auditing, key
management, access control, and authentication capabilities. We have
prototyped the RFID Guardian using off-the-shelf components; compatible
with the ISO 15693/14443 (13.56 MHz) RFID standards, it performs RFID
tag emulation and selective RFID tag jamming.

Speaker Biography:
Melanie Rieback is a Ph.D. student in Computer Systems at the Vrije
Universiteit in Amsterdam, where she is supervised by Prof. Andrew
Tanenbaum. Melanie's research concerns the security and privacy of Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, and she leads
multidisciplinary research teams on RFID privacy management (RFID
Guardian) and RFID security (RFID Malware) projects. Melanie's recent
work has won several awards, and attracted worldwide attention,
appearing in print, broadcast, and online news sources.
Melanie has also served as an invited expert for RFID discussions
involving both the American and Dutch governments. In a past life,
Melanie also worked on the Human Genome Project at the Whitehead
Institute / MIT Center for Genome Research.

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Cordiali saluti,
Stefano Zanero

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