After RFIDsec

I just finished attending <a href="http://www.rfid-cusp.org/rfidsec/">RFIDsec 11</a> at UMass. Most of the talks were very interesting, and the hands-on tutorial sessions on Sunday were a blast. I have so many ideas now!

I attended a dry-run of the side-channel attacks tutorial on Saturday, which was very interesting. I had heard of the technique before, but it was never discussed in any amount of detail in school. Unfortunately, we ran out of time once everyone learned how to use oscilloscopes.

On Sunday I went to the first two parts of the programmable RFID tags tutorial, run by Shane Clark and Ben Ransford. I hadn't ever worked with microcontrollers before, and it was a great introduction. I then attended the physics of RFID session, which pushed the boundaries of RFID read range.

I won't go too much into the talks themselves, since they'll be available online in maybe a month. Suffice to say, Adi's keynote and a few others were outstanding.

Negin pulled her previous work on my current NFC project yesterday and walked me through it. Much thanks to her!