On 2/26/07, Hadmut Danisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Each of these (three digit code) locks had a small keyhole for the
master key to open. Obviously there are different key types
(different size, shape, brand) as the locks had numbers like "TSA005"
tell the officer which key to use to open that
Some of the locks have special indicators which flag that a TSA key has opened
it, which marginally improves the idea, but not
by much. Whether those flags could represent a defence in the case of a
corrupt official in possession of TSA keys I do not
know.
Without such flags, it's an INCREDIBLY
Hi Hadmut,
Welcome to the world of total stupidity. I was in the hardware
store the other and looked at those cheap luggage looks and
thought about how thieves might be able to utilize the weakness
of the system to rip off people, but then..., well I looked at
the Master brand, generally a go
At 03:20 PM 2/26/2007, you wrote:
Hi,
has this been mentioned here before?
I just had my crypto mightmare experience.
I was in a (german!) outdoor shop to complete my equipment
for my next trip, when I came to the rack with luggage padlocks
(used to lock the zippers).
While the german bran
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:36:22PM -0600, Taral wrote:
>
> I'm just waiting for someone with access to photograph said keys and
> post it all over the internet.
There's nothing spectacular about it.
That's the one I have bought:
http://www.pac-safe.com/www/index.php?_room=3&_action=detail&id
* Hadmut Danisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-26 21:20 +0100]:
> has this been mentioned here before?
I don't know if it was mentioned here. Bruce Schneier wrote about it
some time ago.
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0404.html#2
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0405.html#10
Nicolas
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Taral wrote:
> I'm just waiting for someone with access to photograph said keys and
> post it all over the internet.
Let us hope that happnes - it won't make passenger security worse, and
would
demonstrate that The Emperor Has No Clothes.
Even if that doesn't happen, it is presumabley feasible
Hi Allen,
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:23:30PM -0800, Allen wrote:
> Hi Hadmut,
>
> combination lock brands in the $30 to $45 USD range where you can
> set the combination to whatever you want. Guess what? They all
> seemed to use the same key to enable setting the combination.
Why make it tha
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:09:00AM -0500, David Chessler wrote:
>
> This is why I don't bother with padlocks until I get to the hotel
> room. It is a good idea to slow down the petty thief, but a "twist
> tie" from a plastic bag will work. I use the nylon straps used to
> hold cable bunches in p
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:36:22PM -0600, Taral wrote:
>
> I'm just waiting for someone with access to photograph said keys and
> post it all over the internet.
It does not need access to the keys.
Do you know that car Volkswagen Golf? As far as I know also sold in
the USA.
In the eighties
On Feb 26, 2007, at 21:20 , Hadmut Danisch wrote:
Hi,
has this been mentioned here before?
Yes. It is old news, Bruce Schneier's Cryptogram mentioned it in
April 2004, actually [1].
Never seen anything in real world which is such a precise analogon of
a crypto backdoor for governmental
Ian Farquhar (ifarquha) wrote:
[...]
However, I will say that any government (or other) program which assumes
the honesty of employees and contractors is fundamentally flawed,
and any associated risk analysis is either incompetent,
or in failing to identify risk to travellers, seriously incom
Adam Back wrote:
About flexibility and generality I mean Brands has a huge list of
features, like a very efficient observer setting, with cheap
operations suitable for an 8 bit smartcard, limited multi-show (though
linkable, there is an online credential refresh phase if unlinkable is
desired), s
Each of these (three digit code) locks had a small keyhole for the
master key to open.
I'm just waiting for someone with access to photograph said keys and
post it all over the internet.
I'm just waiting for two or three governments to demand the same
access to my luggage. Mechanically solva
Hi,
made two pictures of the padlock with the backdoor:
http://www.danisch.de/tmp/pict0951x.jpg
shows the TSA keywhole: Just a very simple standard
key cylinder, pretty easy to produce a general key from any lock.
But that's waste of time. The lock suffers from the same weakness
almost all l
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