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British RFID passports cracked
From: Chris Walsh <cwalsh () cwalsh org>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:45:26 -0600
Adam Laurie has cracked British RFID passports. http://www.guardian.co.uk/idcards/story/0,,1950226,00.html Although a strong crypto algorithm is used to protect the biometric data on the passport, the encryption key used is very poor indeed. It is therefore possible to guess the key and decrypt the traffic. This means that it is possible to clone passports, and illicitly obtain biometric data on passport holders. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 141 million compromised records in 469 incidents over 6 years.
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