The hacker and female voice explains they can hack it beacause the passport numbers are sequential and are linked to the expire date. That way the can narrow the range and brute force it. That way it will take 3 hours to decypher a rfid passport chip.
The Dutch goverment also noticed this and they are willing to change the numbering of the passport, but since such a decision will take some time and new RFID passports are ariving in august 2006, it will not come in time. So the new dutch passoport will be weakly encrypted/protected.
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Arnoud Ringoir @ Feb 3rd 2006 9:43AM
I'm Dutch and i saw the tv show where they demonstrated it. You can watch it too by clicking this link:
http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/tv/vara/nieuwslicht/bb.20060127.asf
if you skip to 6:20 you can see how it's done.
The hacker and female voice explains they can hack it beacause the passport numbers are sequential and are linked to the expire date. That way the can narrow the range and brute force it. That way it will take 3 hours to decypher a rfid passport chip.
The Dutch goverment also noticed this and they are willing to change the numbering of the passport, but since such a decision will take some time and new RFID passports are ariving in august 2006, it will not come in time. So the new dutch passoport will be weakly encrypted/protected.