SecureLED: An alternative to current technologies!
Lock bumping seems to be getting more and more popular day by day. Marcin Bojanczyk, Chris Danis and Brian Rogan have developed the SecureLED, an optical access control device which swaps the existing RFID or Magnetic Strip technologies with a cryptographically secure, contact-less device that corresponds over product's LEDs.
Since current physical access control systems are insecure in basic ways, they found the potential of communicating over cheap commodity LEDs as the solution to this problem. They put up both a reader and a small key device. The reader outputs the industry-standard Weigand protocol and it is interoperable with exisiting systems. They tout it as a powerful alternative to the current technology.
Whereas LED-key has a better intuitive interface where a user must point it at a reader for reading it, an RFID device need to be sheathed in something like tinfoil to prevent unwanted reads. Moreover, RFID devices can be read without the client's consent. So, the SecureLED seems to be a worthy alternate to current technologies.
Via: HackedGadgets
