Dave’s Bit Bucket
Monday January 30, 2006
Dutch biometric passports cracked, ID info stealable
It’s as well that there is lively debate on this subject, from a
technical standpoint as well as the more expected civil liberties
folk…
The Dutch passport, one of the first to include « biometric » information
which can be read digitally in accordance with new internatiomal
legislation, has been cracked from a range of 10 metres such that
cleartext of the data stored therein is extracted. Kudos to the Riscure
labs in Delft for publishing.
First reported at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/30/dutch_biometric_passport_crack/, Riscure’s own press release here, abstracted material from presentation on the subject by Jacobs and Schreur at a SafeNL workshop here.
(2006-01-30 05:55:15.0)
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