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Article #694Re: U.S. National Identity Card (RFID) Coming in 2008
From: Jon von Leipzig
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 05:46
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 05:46
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Ari Silverstein wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2006 08:52:54 -0700, Joshua Putnam wrote: > > >>On one hand, nothing in the cited legislation says anything about >>RFID, and RFID tracking seems like a ridiculous proposal that no >>politician would expect to get away with. >> >>On the other hand, there's no legislation authorizing the NSA to >>maintain a database of every single phone call made within the United >>States, and it seems like a ridiculous scheme that no politician >>would expect to get away with. > > > Now for the reality. > > http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/1951/1/1/ That might impress laypersons, but not serious hackers. The RFID Hacking Underground http://tinyurl.com/s4dl8 They can steal your smartcard, lift your passport, jack your car, even clone the chip in your arm. And you won't feel a thing. 5 tales from the RFID-hacking underground. <snipped> "We believe the new US passport is probably vulnerable to a brute-force attack," he says. "The encryption keys in them will depend on passport numbers and birth dates. Because these have a certain degree of structure and guessability, we estimate that the effective key length is at most 52 bits. A special key-cracking machine could probably break a passport key of this length in 10 minutes."
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