"David G. Koontz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >http://www.stuff.co.nz/4659100a28.html?source=RSStech_20080817 > >Peter Gutmann has gotten himself in the news along with Adam Laurie and >Jeroen van Beek for altering the passport microchip in a passport.
The original story was actually the coverage in the UK Times last week, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4467098.ece. It was a three-person effort, Adam Laurie did the RFID part (via RFIDIOt), Jeroen van Beek did the passport software implementation and tying the whole thing together, all I did was the signing. We never touched the passport chip, what we showed was that it's possible to create your own fictitious e-passport that's accepted as valid by the reference Golden Reader Tool. In other words we showed that what security researchers had been warning about ever since e- passports were first proposed was actually possible, following the l0pht's motto "Making the theoretical practical". Jeroen presented the work at Black Hat'08, http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-08/bh-usa-08-speakers.html#vanBeek. >http://www.stuff.co.nz/images/748842.jpg Ugh, no, make it go away. (Alert readers may notice the anomaly with the carefully-placed monitor right behind my head, which is displaying something slightly different from the surrounding sea of Vista desktops :-). It's actually a file photo from a news story from the start of last year about Vista). Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
