Monday, September 8, 2008

To pass or not to pass

Let's continue with the RFID security issues.

okay, we know that RFID on credit is not safe, but you don't have a RFID credit card, do you think that you are safe? Well read the following and determine it for yourself.

"A German computer security consultant has shown that he can clone the electronic passports that the United States and other countries are beginning to distribute this year. " This story <here> runs 2 years ago!

What is e-passport?
E-passport contains your bio-information in RFID chip that is placed in the passport. All US Visa Waiver Program country passport would be in have that in place and Singapore is one of the country.
The standard is from ICAO BAC International Civil Aviation Organization Basic Access Control which US Feds think that it is safe <Original Story from here>.

Singapore new passport is ICAO BAC standard using NXP chipset <Get more info from here> and <here>.

"Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors has sued a university in The Netherlands to block publication of research that details security flaws in NXP's Mifare Classic wireless smart cards."
<Get the story from here>

Here is the youtube video from the running story that crack the NXP card from london tube (*tube is MRT from UK):



Some more information about the RFID passport.


Can the clone passport be fake proof? Yes for
<Original Story here>

What can we do then? This may help to solve the problem.

1 comments:

Raj said...

More studies are required in RFIDs.
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