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Old August 13th 08, 08:18 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Boltar Boltar is offline
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On Aug 11, 6:39 pm, Jarle H Knudsen wrote:
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:25:43 -0700 (PDT), Boltar wrote:
FTA:


1997 — MIFARE PRO with Triple DES coprocessor introduced.


No excuse.


But what did those cards cost back then? They were probably not cheap.


Possibly not, but they should have built in an easy upgrade path so
now the old card has been hacked any newly issued cards can be DES or
AES encrypted and people with the old cards can upgrade if they want.

B2003