Until now, RFID chips, which are used for electronic identifications in animals, products, objects, even people, could be easily cloned. This represented a big problem because it was possible to steal a person’s identity, or replace a real valuable object with a fake.
Currently, Verayo has announced an augmented RFID chip called Vera X512H RFID chip, which is the world’s first unclonable silicon chip. This new RFID chip is based on PUF technology (Physical Unclonable Functions), one of the latest breakthroughs in semiconductor security technology. PUF-based solutions tap the “physical DNA” intrinsic to silicon crystals at the atomic level, to generate effectively unclonable secret keys that can be extracted electronically from chips attached to branded products. Even the manufacturer of the chips does not know these keys.
No doubt, hackers from everywhere have a new great challenge.
Vía crunchgear.
