Crypto-Chip Boosts ID Security
Like the low-tech wax seals of old, these tokens could become the secure devices used with smart cards -- cards with an embedded computer chip that store financial or personal data -- as well as with sensors and digital signatures, said authors Ravikanth Pappu of ThingMagic LLC, Neil Gershenfeld of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Bits and Atoms, and MIT graduate students Benjamin Recht and Jason Taylor.
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