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Re: ATMs + PINs (was Re: The Upcoming DES Challenge)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Cobb)
Wed Jan 8 19:29:47 1997
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 15:59:08 -0500
To: peter.allan@aeat.co.uk, cryptography@c2.net, liz@nym.alias.net
From: Stephen Cobb <stephen@iu.net>
At 01:16 PM 1/8/97 GMT, Peter wrote:
>Ross Anderson's "Why Cryptosystems Fail" describes ATMs and their
>keying arrangements.
....
>The article is worth reading and is mainly about bad design failing
>to address realistic attacks (including those by insiders).
....
>ftp://ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/wcf.ps.gz
I could not access the file at this address so I looked around and found
it, along with some other very interesting stuff, on this page:
http://mangle.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/authors/A/AndersonRJ/
exact ref is:
http://hypatia.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/authors/A/AndersonRJ/papers/wcf.ps.gz
<start moan>Now its out with the unzipper and the Acrobat converter...One
day all documents will be in formats we can all enjoy<end moan, no offense
to anyone intended, I am sure the info well worth the effort>
Stephen
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