> And easily optimized by starting with a guess at the person's age - are
> they 20, or 45, or 70? Take 5 years either side, and you're down to 3,650
> or so guesses.
I was thinking more along the lines of hanging around just outside
security or immigration with my long range antenna and laptop
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:10:26 EST, Michael Holstein said:
>
> >The Date Of Birth of the holder
>
> about 32,000 possibilities (assuming < 90yrs old)
And easily optimized by starting with a guess at the person's age - are
they 20, or 45, or 70? Take 5 years either side, and you're down to 3,65
Michael Holstein wrote:
>>The Expiry Date of the Passport
>
> Passports are vaild for 10 years (for an adult in the US), and
> expiration is just MM/ .. so that's only 120 possibilities.
>
Note that here in the UK expiry is YY/MM/DD, so numbers will actually be
much larger, but in term
Michael Holstein wrote:
> That article focuses on Dutch passports, but in the US it's essentially
> the same.
>
>>The Passport number
>
> a 10 digit number (I don't know where they start, but it certainly
> wasn't 01).
If they're sequential, we only need to know where they start on
That article focuses on Dutch passports, but in the US it's essentially
the same.
>The Passport number
a 10 digit number (I don't know where they start, but it certainly
wasn't 01).
>The Date Of Birth of the holder
about 32,000 possibilities (assuming < 90yrs old)
>The Ex
The latest version of RFIDIOt, the open-source python library for RFID
exploration/manipulation, contains code that implements the ICAO 9303
standard for Machine Readable Travel Documents in the form of a test
program called 'mrpkey.py'.
This program will exchange crypto keys with the passport
