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Re: Dutch Transport Card Broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Fri Jan 25 10:14:44 2008
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:04:09 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
CC: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <877ihy93j1.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Ed Felten has an interesting post on his blog about a Dutch smartcard
> based transportation payment system that has been broken. Among other
> foolishness, the designers used a custom cryptosystem and 48 bit keys.
>
> http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1250
The Dutch government paid two billion dollars for stupidity, for
foolishness that almost anyone on this list could have told them was
foolish. Secret algorithm!
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