Welcome to the RFID Guardian Project!

From RFID Wiki

The RFID Guardian Project is a collaborative project focused upon providing security and privacy in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems. The goals of our project are to:

   * Investigate the security and privacy threats faced by RFID systems
   * Design and implement real solutions against these threats
   * Investigate the associated technological and legal issues

The namesake of our project is the RFID Guardian: a mobile battery-powered device that offers personal RFID security and privacy management. One of the focuses of our project is to build an RFID Guardian prototype.

Our group also performed the first-ever research on RFID Malware.


Recent Awards:

   * 6/12/2006 - Our paper at USENIX Lisa 2006 won the Best Paper Award
   * 12/10/2006 - Netherlands Science Foundation (NWO) I/O Award
   * 12/9/2006 - Finalist for Internet Society (ISOC) Award 2006 (Category: Security and Privacy)
   * 15/3/2006 - Our paper at IEEE PerCom 2006 won the Best Paper for High Impact Award



Get an RFID Guardian:

Do you want to purchase an RFID Guardian? Version 4 will be available for sale this summer! If you are interested in having one, please add yourself to the mailing list of people we will notify when we start to mass-produce and distribute the HW. If you have any other questions, you can also send us an email at info@rfidguardian.org.


Latest News:

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[edit] 17 October 2008

Things have been quiet on this website lately, because we have been hard at work (for the past ~6 months) on RFID Guardian Version 4! This version will be commercially available. Make sure that you're subscribed to our mailing list, so you'll receive the news when the time comes..

[edit] 28 March 2008

The RFID Security: Theory and Practiceworkshop that we organized was a success! Slides + a summary of the discussion sessions will be posted on the website in the upcoming week or so.

[edit] 19 February 2008

A video of Melanie's talk at DeepSec is now online.

[edit] 17 January 2008

Melanie Rieback (VU), Rop Gonggrijp, Roel Verdult (RU), Wouter Teepe (RU), and Ruben Muijers (RU) met with the State Secretary of Transport and Public Works (Verkeer en Waterstaat), Tineke Huizinga, to provide advice regarding the security (present and future) of the OV Chipkaart.

[edit] 16 January 2008

Melanie Rieback (VU), Rop Gonggrijp, Roel Verdult (RU), and Wouter Teepe (RU) testify in a Dutch Parliamentary ("Tweede Kamer") hearing about the security of the OV Chipkaart.

[edit] 15 January 2008

Melanie Rieback and scientists from Raboud Universiteit of Nijmegen met with Translink, to provide advice about the security of the OV Chipkaart. See the press release for more info.

[edit] 14 January 2008

We are maintaining a media archive for press coverage related to the Dutch OV Chipkaart hack.

[edit] 11 January 2008

Melanie Rieback interviewed in the NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch).

[edit] 09 January 2008

Members of RFID Guardian Project co-author a petition regarding security of the Dutch public transportation card (in Dutch).

[edit] 08 January 2008

Melanie Rieback interviewed about contactless smart card security on the NOS Journaal (in Dutch).

[edit] 01 November 2007

We launched our new wiki-based website! Together with this new website we're presenting our new open-source infrastructure for the RFID Guardian. From now on everyone can start downloading our HW/SW source code, and propagating their changes back to the project.