MIT’s “Tag of Everything” for Combating Counterfeiting

By GCN Staff

MIT has recently designed a chip that is small, easy to make and inexpensive that could be used to tag and track components adding a new level of security to the electronic supply chain. Current tagging devices are not small enough to tag multiple types of components, in theory, the smaller tags could be embedded in components prior to becoming a finished product.

Existing electronic tracking tags like radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are too big to put on many electronics and require too much power to run strong encryption. Plus, they’re expensive to manufacture. Smaller tags have limited encryption and communication options.

Now, researchers at MIT have hit on a way to reduce the size and power requirements of tracking tags while boosting their security.

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