Um in die USA einreisen zu koennen, ohne weitere Schwierigkeiten zu haben, braucht man bekanntlich den biometrischen Pass.
Ich hab mir ein solchen letztes Jahr machen lassen, in der Annahme ich haette einen standardkonformen, sicheren Reisepass….
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How to clone a biometric passport while it’s still in the bag
In an investigation for the Daily Mail, security consultant Adam Laurie has demonstrated how a new UK biometric passport can be cloned without even being removed from its delivery envelope.
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But the key in this first generation of biometric passport is relatively easy to identify/crack. It is not random, but consists of passport number, the passport holder’s date of birth and the passport expiry date. The Mail found it relatively easy to identify the holder’s date of birth, while the expiry date is 10 years from the issue date, which for a newly-delivered passport would clearly fall within a few days. The passport number consists of a number of predictable elements, including an identifier for the issuing office, so effectively a significant part of the key can be reconstructed from the envelope and its address label.
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