Industry-Wide Plan for Securing the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

“The cryptography proposed in TI’s paper would enable a single standardized methodology for tags and readers that takes both authentication and product encryption capability into consideration,” said Fred Veinot, vice president of business development at Sirit Inc., a leading provider of RFID reader technology. “This is significant because an internationally accepted cryptographic standard will be critical for industry agreement on an item-level tag standard in EPCglobal working groups.”