From: Ross Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Yet another failure of commercial
cryptographic equipment Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 17:52:13 +0000 I gave a talk
at Cambridge yesterday in which I described a new and interesting family of
attacks on cryptographic equipment. These attacks defeat machines such as
the Racal RG7000 and the IBM 4758/CCA which are commonly used to protect
the PINs and keys used in automatic teller machines. The paper is available
online at: http://research.microsoft.com/~aherbert/volume63.pdf [4.8MB] as
pages 27-30 in the PDF. [HTML below] I got a fax yesterday informing me
that an application is to be brought in the High Court, it seems by
Citibank, on Thursday 20th February for `relief in relation to the
protection of information which they accept as being confidential and which
ought not to be in the public domain.' I hope that no English court would
go so far as to censor already published material. However, one just can't
tell these days ...
MORE ON...
http://cryptome.org/pacc.htm
