Title: RFID Security and Privacy: Academia, Industry, and the FutureSpeaker: Kevin Fu, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts AmherstDate: Monday, September 17, 5:00pm~6:00pm 2007Place: College of Science Buiding 109(이학관 109)Abstract:Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology promises to solve problems in pervasive applications such as electronic commerce,public transportation, drug anti-counterfeiting, and medical safety. But the effectiveness of RFID in these applications rests on the strength and soundness of mechanisms that provide security andprivacy. Unfortunately, poorly designed security is difficult todistinguish from well-designed security.How can a consumer or researcher determine whether an RFID-enabled system is actually secure, or whether a system is merely advertised as secure?To emphasize the importance of these questions, this talk will analyze the insecurity of both RFID-enabled credit cards from industry and RFID authentication protocols from academia.This talk will also present measurements of the first general-purpose RFID platform that provides strong cryptography for UHF RFID without a battery.Bio: Kevin Fu is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is the principal investigator of the RFID Consortium on Security and Privacy (RFID CUSP).Kevin investigates the security and privacy of pervasive and invasive computation --- including RFID, implantable medical devices, and file systems.Kevin''s contributions include key regression for efficient decentralized access control of storage the SFS read-only file system for fast integrity-protected content distribution proxy re-encryption file systems for managing distributed access control and the security analysis of RFID-enabled credit cards, Web authentication, and software updates.Kevin received his M.Eng. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 and 2005 respectively, and his S.B. in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT in 1998.He has served on numerous program committees of prestigious conferences in computer security and cryptography.His research has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.Kevin also holds a certificate of achievement in artisanal bread making from the French Culinary Institute.http://www.cs.umass.edu/~kevinfu/