USING PROMISCUOUS AND NON-PROMISCUOUS DATA TO VERIFY CARD AND READER IDENTITY

摘要

A system and method for authenticating radio frequency identification (RFID) devices and validating readers of the RFID devices are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention use RFID devices adapted for storing data in a form of data segments selectively associated with promiscuous and non-promiscuous regions of their memories and monitor algorithmic, computational, communicational, or tampered errors of the readers