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Old August 11th 08, 10:25 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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On Aug 11, 10:28 am, John B wrote:
Interesting, didn't spot a mention of AES on their site, just DES, but
then I didn't look that hard. In that case theres even less excuse for
TfL to pick the bottom of the range one.

Presumably because when they set the spec *ten years ago*, the card
systems didn't support AES.

FTA:

1997 — MIFARE PRO with Triple DES coprocessor introduced.

No excuse.

B2003


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