On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:22:44 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:55:38 on Fri, 19 Mar
2010, d remarked:
At any of the London Airports IME it is now very rare to queue for less than
20 minutes at immigration, though they are introducing machines which let
you avoid this queue if you have a "chip"" passport.

Ah yes , arn't they wonderful? All your details stored on it unencrypted which
can be read from a few metres away with the right machine.

All your details - please list them. Unencrypted - according to who. A

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_passport

"The passport's critical information is both printed on the data page of the passport and stored in the chip."

"Note that in some early biometric passports BAC wasn't used at all, allowing attacker to read the chip's content without providing a key"

So it looks like now they use encryption but according to the rest of the
document its still hardly secure. Look at the number of attacks listed.

few metres - only with massive aerials.

BS. RFID can be read from a few metres away as long as you can direct
enough power at the chip to power it up.

B2003