September 11, 2006
NSF Awards Million Dollar Grant To RFID Security Consortium
An RFID security group, the RFID CUSP (RFID Consortium for Security and Privacy), was awarded over US$1 M by the NSF (National Science Foundation) to study, what else, security and privacy implications of the the technology. The group consists mostly of academics and industry reps, though graduate students will be involved in the studies. Participating universities are the U of Massachusetts Amherst and Johns Hopkins University. [via RFID Journal]
This consortium is different than the Secure ID Coalition, whose mandate is to promote the use of smartcards and dispel the notion that they are a security and privacy risk. In fact, it almost seems that these two groups are working at opposite purposes.
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