RFID Smart Card: Encryption Acceleration

The Committee on Energy and Commerce

... "Smart cards are essentially RFID systems with advanced computing power, storage, and strong encryption accelerators, offering advanced services with enhanced security and privacy protection. In fact, smart cards are so powerful that the Department of Defense (DoD) and other government agencies are adopting the technology to secure access to their facilities and computer networks, even storing a picture and fingerprint of the cardholder on the card for enhanced security control. The DoD makes worst case scenario assumptions about the cards falling into the wrong hands and having large resources at their disposal to crack the card -- standards that advanced smart cards have met through the use of encryption, secure design, and other measures. " ...