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Re: Encryption of data in smart cards

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Werner Koch)
Thu Mar 13 09:44:10 2003

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To: Krister Walfridsson <cato@df.lth.se>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
Mail-Followup-To: Krister Walfridsson <cato@df.lth.se>,
	cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:32:39 +0100
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0303122301001.9884-100000@igloo.df.lth.se> (Krister
 Walfridsson's message of "Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:08:26 +0100 (MET)")

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:08:26 +0100 (MET), Krister Walfridsson said:

> This is not completely true -- I have seen some high-end cards that use
> the PIN code entered by the user as the encryption key.  And it is quite

Sorry my fault, by "read out the data" I meant to do this using a side
channel or with a hardware probe.
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