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Biometric passports - security risks, vol. XXXXXXXVII

  • 10-06-2007 7:03pm
    #1
    probe
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    The University of Louvain, the same place that the AES Rijndael globally accepted state of the art cryptography standard hails from, has published a paper on the weaknesses of biometric passports. Irish biometric passports are no different, aside from the signature. Making life easy and contactless for ID thieves.

    http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/crypto/passport/index.html

    .probe


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  • #2
    Black Swan
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    There was an article about such problems in Wired magazine some time ago, about RFID chips and the potential for ID theft. The author jokingly suggested that you could smash the chip with a hammer and they would still have to accept the passport... Then again you could get rejected or perhaps strip searched?


  • #3
    H3LLg0d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 104 ✭✭H3LLg0d


    maybe glove searched:D


    interesting must read up on this


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