I hesitate to use the syllable "crypto" in describing this paper,
but those who have not seen it may find it interesting.
http://www.arx.com/documents/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_PIN_Cracking.pdf
Or profitable.
--dan
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Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor N
not really. however Privacy Rights Clearinghouse reports that
100,000,000 personal records have ended up in criminal hands since
2005. See:
http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/chrondatabreaches.htm
That does not mean 100 million people have become victims of identity
theft. And there is no reason to