SkyeTek provides the industry’s most advanced security technology for protecting integrity and privacy across both HF and UHF applications. By integrating state-of-the-art, open standard encryption and hashing into its embedded RFID readers, SkyeTek has put RFID security on par with mature technology industries without impacting form, fit, or cost.
Standards-Based Security
SkyeTek's standards-based approach, enables secure support for generic tags, saving SkyeTek customers up to 70 percent over systems using proprietary security schemes. In keeping with SkyeTek's overall Advanced Universal Reader Architecture (AURA), SkyeTek's security design is flexible to change in the future as security standards evolve, thus providing SkyeTek customers significant investment protection.
SkyeTek security encompasses the following cryptographic algorithms used by the U.S. Department of Defense and global financial services:
- Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
- Digital Encryption Standard (DES)
- Triple DES (TDEA or 3DES)
- Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA)
- Message-Digest algorithm 5 (MD5)
SkyeWare Security
SkyeWare Security delivers this robust security by linking to the business application through a host side application programming interface (API). Commands are issued and data is passed through the API to the reader module where the data is secured and subsequently written to the tag. SkyeWare Security comes standard with SkyeWare in the SkyeModule M2 (HF) and the SkyeModule M9 (UHF).