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Old August 9th 08, 07:16 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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On 9 Aug, 19:41, Jarle H Knudsen wrote:
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 09:36:23 -0700 (PDT), Boltar wrote:
If he'd been doing his job properly he'd have choisen the DES
encrypted MiFARE system, not the bargain basement hackable one thats
been around for ages.


DES is a deprecated cryptographic block cipher that falls to brute force
attacks due to its short 56-bit key. It has been superseded by AES.


Its better than bugger all encryption. AFAIK mifare doesn't support
AES.

B2003