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Old 02-23-2006, 06:16 PM   #1
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Another piece of a puzzle called Personal Privacy is discussed in this article from EE Times:
Secure or not, RFID tag adoption is in the cards

An underlying story that directly affects RFIDs worries about hash codes that may soon fail to provide privacy and protection:
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology ran the program that resulted in AES, but complained last year that it lacked the resources to develop a similar program for hash functions. "My guess is they [NIST] will get pushed into doing this again," said Rivest in an interview after the panel.

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