Security with Bank Cards

Secure PIN Transactions With Photons

Photonics Online | July 9, 2015

Criminals are very inventive when it comes to hacking payment terminals, bank cards, IDs or credit cards. Unfortunately for these malefactors, however, researchers at the University of Twente from research Institute MESA+ have now devised a solution that provides better protection to banks, businesses and consumers. UT awards researcher Bas Goorden a PhD for his work on developing a method to equip bank cards with secure ‘keys’ that are impossible to duplicate. He achieved this by cleverly combining the scattering of light with the quantum properties of photons.

MESA+ has a 1250 m2 state-of-the-art NanoLab which consists of three closely intertwined units: the cleanroom, analysis facilities and the BioNanoLab. Source: http://www.utwente.nl/mesaplus/

<more at http://www.photonicsonline.com/doc/secure-pin-transactions-with-photons-0001; related link: http://www.utwente.nl/en/news/!/2015/7/376305/secure-pin-transactions-with-photons (Secure PIN Transctions with Photons. July 9, 2015)>