"David G. Koontz" <david_koontz@xtra.co.nz> 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 majordomo@metzdowd.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE