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Security of Oyster Cards
"Mok-Kong Shen" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... John Hadstate wrote: (Matthew) wrote in message Access to the information is only possible using secret keys specific to that card, known only to devices permitted to process the cards. These cards are very difficult to break into, making the cards very secure; in the unlikely event that a card has its key broken then the system - and all other cards - will remain secure. All of the above adds up to a classic case of "security by obscurity." This might mean that the inventors have already identified or suspect weaknesses in their system that they hope will remain undiscovered if no one is permitted to analyze their system too closely. On the other hand, if the cost/risk of analysis is sufficiently high, there would be 'practical' security, I suppose. (Actually, banknotes are similar in this respect, I believe. There are saying, though, that the techniques/knowhow of the fraudsters are now quite comparable to those of the governments in making banknotes.) Actually, today banknotes aren't naively stuffed fithe anti-forgery-features but the idea is to make it unprofitable to fake a banknote in a small-scale production. So, a forger is forced to go large-scale which in turn is easily detectable (duplicate serial numbers or unexplainable inflation for instance) and which also justifies a large-scale counteraction to find and disable him. Lots of Greetings! Volker |
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Security of Oyster Cards
Volker Hetzer wrote: Actually, today banknotes aren't naively stuffed fithe anti-forgery-features but the idea is to make it unprofitable to fake a banknote in a small-scale production. So, a forger is forced to go large-scale which in turn is easily detectable (duplicate serial numbers or unexplainable inflation for instance) and which also justifies a large-scale counteraction to find and disable him. I am not sure duplicated serial numbers or unexplainable inflation, especially the latter, are practical characteristics that are 'effectively' checkable. (Define 'unexplainable inflation'!) It's 'olds' now that e.g. 50 Euro banknotes had been forged quite well. They were presumably produced in regions not within EU influences. Someone told me that certain sophisticated techniques previously employed in DM are not used in Euro because Euro is made by diverse member countries and not all of them had such techniques at their disposal and so they agreed on sort of a gcd. M. K. Shen |
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