Fingerprinting Computer Chips (Technology Review)

Fri, 03/12/2010 - 05:20

Verayo is harnessing unique manufacturing flaws to make RFID tags that are impossible to copy. A company that relies on atomic-level flaws in computer chips to tell one chip from another says that its circuits could help fight counterfeiting in anything from passports to handbags. Verayo , an MIT spinoff based in San Jose, CA, says the ID tags should be more secure and relatively cheap to make.