Date: 19/09/2009

Alien Technology adds "Dynamic Authentication" to its Higgs-3 RFID IC security

Alien Technology has announced that it adds "Dynamic Authentication" to its Higgs-3 RFID IC features enhancing data integrity for security, brand protection, and authentication applications.

Explains Victor Vega, Alien Technology Marketing Director: "Dynamic Authentication further enhances security of the Higgs-3 IC by incorporating a challenge/response algorithm which defeats static cloning attempts of the Higgs-3 IC. This innovative custom feature is a verification process comprising a dynamic interaction between the reader and the tag, and is a function of several parametric tag characteristics whereby the tag's signature is challenged by the reader for Higgs-3 authenticity and confirmed by the host to provide customers with a cost effective, secure identification measure."

Dynamic Authentication is offered to the permanently encoded 32-bit TID and the unique 64-bit factory programmed UTID, which come standard in the Higgs-3 IC, used in conjunction with the EPC data (up to 480-bits) or the USER data (up to 512-bits), and ensures uniqueness and alleviates counterfeit clones. The Higgs-3 also includes password protected read lock viewing permissions for the User data.

Said Otello Azzali, Vice President of Aton, S.p.A.: "Alien's Higgs-3 feature set has proven effective in anticounterfeit applications, and has been instrumental in alleviating problems associated with gray markets, especially in high value garment applications where brand protection is of utmost importance."

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