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new in EFC's media archives - Mondex, crypto (fwd)
Electronic Frontier Canada's David Jones ([email protected])
posted the following to the EFC mailing list:
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New in EFC's media archives:
1. Plastic treasure ... not so smart after all
http://www.efc.ca/pages/media/guardian.24sep97.html
This article reports that a team in the Netherlands
made a "successful attack" on a Mondex chip (Hitachi H8/3101)
by activating a test mode in which the chip dumps its
contents to a serial port. John Beric, security manager
for Mondex simply says "I have never SEEN a report saying
they have broken Mondex". (Is this plausible deniability?? ;-)
The article also makes mention of EFC getting hassled by
the National Bank of New Zealand over a leaked memo.
In the mean time, Mondex is trying to ramp up deployment of
its new chip, the Hitachi H8/3109, which (for the first time apparently)
implements public key crypto.
2. If cops can read E-mail, so can the bad guys
http://www.efc.ca/pages/media/gazette.24sep97.html
Some coverage of the "crypto" issue in the context of
a major international privacy conference held in Montreal
last week. EFC scored some coverage for its position
statement on crypto: http://www.efc.ca/pages/crypto/policy.html
including a quote in favour of strong crypto:
"There is a far greater risk to individuals, businesses, and the
government if we are unable to effectively prevent criminals from
gaining unauthorized access to our records and communications."
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