Time: Tuesday Nov 18th at 4pm Place: Gunness Student Center Conference Room. Refreshments will be served at 3:45pm. Title: RFID Privacy without Killing Speaker: Ravi Pappu, Co-founder of ThingMagic Inc. Abstract: This talk will present a new approach to enabling privacy and security without killing RFID tags. The key idea is to distribute shares of a secret encryption key in a collection of RFID tags, such that a reader with access to fewer tags than a pre-established threshold is unable to recover the the secret key and decrypt the information stored in the tags. I will show how this approach can be used to enhance privacy and security in a large subset of supply chain applications. The advantages of this approach over prior work is that it provides a robust protocol-independent mechanism to distribute PINs and passwords without requiring always-on connectivity, changes to the air interface protocol, or changes to the tag hardware. This approach also allows counterfeit detection as a collateral benefit. *Joint work with Dr. Ari Juels (RSA, CUSP) and Bryan Parno (CMU)* Bio: Ravi Pappu co-founded ThingMagic with four MIT classmates in 2000. He currently runs the Advanced Development Group there, which develops cutting-edge systems based on ThingMagic’s portfolio of RFID products and solving challenging RFID system optimization problems for its customers. Most recently, he led the design and implementation of the Tool Link system in collaboration with Ford Motor Company and DeWalt. He received his Ph.D. from MIT for the invention of physical one-way functions. While at MIT, he co-created the first dynamic holographic video system with haptic interaction. He has published 26 papers, and is a named inventor on 13 US and international patents. Ravi has been honored as one of Technology Review’s top 100 innovators under the age of 35. He received the Carl T. Humphrey Memorial Award for contributions to the engineering profession from Villanova University and was named a Fellow of the World Technology Network in the Social Entrepreneurship category in 2006. In 2008, he was recognized as one of the 40 under 40 by the Boston Business Journal. |
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