On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Krister Walfridsson wrote:
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Werner Koch wrote:
If you want to encrypt the
data on the card, you also need to store the key on it. And well, if
you are able to read out the data, you are also able to read out the
key (more or less trivial for most
Trei, Peter wrote:
John Kelsey[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 11:08 PM 3/12/03 +0100, Krister Walfridsson wrote:
This is not completely true -- I have seen some high-end cards that use
the PIN code entered by the user as the encryption key. And it is quite
easy to do similar things on Java cards...
At 11:08 PM 3/12/03 +0100, Krister Walfridsson wrote:
...
This is not completely true -- I have seen some high-end cards that use
the PIN code entered by the user as the encryption key. And it is quite
easy to do similar things on Java cards...
With any kind of reasonable PIN length, though,
John Kelsey[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 11:08 PM 3/12/03 +0100, Krister Walfridsson wrote:
...
This is not completely true -- I have seen some high-end cards that use
the PIN code entered by the user as the encryption key. And it is quite
easy to do similar things on Java cards...
At 01:13 PM 3/13/2003 -0500, John Kelsey wrote:
At 11:08 PM 3/12/03 +0100, Krister Walfridsson wrote:
...
This is not completely true -- I have seen some high-end cards that use
the PIN code entered by the user as the encryption key. And it is quite
easy to do similar things on Java cards...
At 10:39 AM 3/11/2003 +0530, N. Raghavendra wrote:
Can anyone point me to sources about encryption of data in smart
cards. What I am looking for is protocols for encrypting sensitive
data (e.g., medical information about the card-holder), so that
even if the card falls into malicious hands
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Werner Koch wrote:
If you want to encrypt the
data on the card, you also need to store the key on it. And well, if
you are able to read out the data, you are also able to read out the
key (more or less trivial for most mass market cards).
This is not completely true --
Hello,
Can anyone point me to sources about encryption of data in smart
cards. What I am looking for is protocols for encrypting sensitive
data (e.g., medical information about the card-holder), so that
even if the card falls into malicious hands, it won't be easy to
read that data.
Thank you
