Re: U.S. National Identity Card (RFID) Coming in 2008

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"Jon von Leipzig" <Jonl@myday.com> wrote in message 
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> 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."

so we should keep our passports wrapped in foil.  :)

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