Re: Your epapers, please?

2005-04-04 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Thomas Shaddack shaddack@ns.arachne.cz wrote: Putting the tag into an enclosure made of a feromagnetic material helps, though. Altoids can proved to be a pretty effective shielding. Clearly we need mu-metal Altoids tins. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cryptanalysis of ePassports

2005-04-04 Thread cypherpunk
An article is up on the eprint archive, http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/095. Security and Privacy Issues in E-passports by Ari Juels and David Molnar and David Wagner. It analyzes the new contactless chips which will be in U.S. passports in a few months. Among the risks it identifies are that