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Long-form writing on NFC cryptography, supply chain compliance, and anti-counterfeit engineering.

Veridian Systems and Torium Network announce strategic partnership

Veridian Systems and Torium Network are connecting product authentication infrastructure with mobile Scan & Earn verification experiences.

2026-05-21 · 3 min read

How NTAG 424 DNA SUN messages prevent cloning

A walk-through of Secure Unique NFC (SUN) messages, AES-128 CMAC, and why a captured tap can never be replayed against a different verifier.

2025-09-18 · 7 min read

EU FMD compliance checklist for pharma manufacturers

A practical 12-item checklist covering serialization, EMVS connectivity, end-of-line verification, and audit trail retention under the Falsified Medicines Directive.

2025-04-22 · 9 min read

Building offline-first NFC verification

Why a verifier app that breaks when the network drops fails its users — and the cached-key bundle pattern we ship in VeriScan SDK to keep tags verifiable on a plane, in a warehouse, or under a counter.

2024-11-06 · 6 min read

Designing tamper-evident NFC labels for blister packs

Blister geometry, foil backing, chip placement, and the "cut-on-removal" antenna — the engineering tradeoffs to harden consumer-grade NFC into pharma-grade durability.

2024-07-20 · 8 min read

GS1 Digital Link explained: from raw URI to verified product

How the GS1 Digital Link standard encodes GTIN, lot, and serial into resolvable URLs — and what that means for authentication infrastructure.

2024-03-12 · 7 min read

Cold-chain provenance: lessons from a Singapore–Jakarta deployment

Eleven weeks from kickoff to go-live on a cross-border vaccine deployment, and the five moments that rewrote our operations playbook.

2023-11-08 · 8 min read

Why static QR codes can't solve counterfeiting

Static QR codes, serial-number lookups, and why "scan to verify" sounds clever until you try to clone one in 30 seconds.

2023-06-15 · 6 min read