J.A. Terranson wrote:
Old news. We were doing that in the early "aughts". Yes, it had a familiar ring to it... I was wondering what the UCSD people meant as their contribution. Presumably getting it to work in the ATM setting.
Same family of attacks as the thin powder or other film over the keypad. A friend of mine who worked for the govt, had an rsa "Pwnie-Token", and he said that after a several years the buttons that he used for the PIN developed indentations...
I'm waiting for a pinpad that maintains a
uniform temperature to get around this. Hard to achieve sufficiently quick response. How about the keys have independent heating elements so that they can be randomized. And of course there is the distribution of heat across each key surface... Mike