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[Cryptography] Ars Technica on the Taiwanese National ID smart card
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Sep 17 12:16:57 2013
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:16:50 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Weeks after the informal announcement, the Taiwanese National ID
smartcard break is finally getting press. It is a great example of
a piece of "certified" crypto hardware that works poorly because
of bad random number generation.
Good explanation for your technical but not security oriented friends
in Ars Technica:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/fatal-crypto-flaw-in-some-government-certified-smartcards-makes-forgery-a-snap/
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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