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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Collocation Access
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 14:26:53PM -0500, Stasiniewicz, Adam wrote: > That is true for strip card (credit card style) and simple prox cards. > But what I have been seeing more often is that companies are using the > smart card and wireless smart card variety for high security areas. So > instead of having a card that will always return the same value (making > it easy to duplicate) the smart cards will use good old fashion PKI to > mutually authenticate the card to the reader and the reader to the card. > This way, the card won't give out its security information until the > card reader is verified to be a legit member of the security system. In However, speaking of smart (non-simple-proximity) card security: Linkname: Researchers See Privacy Pitfalls in No-Swipe Credit Cards - New York Times URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/business/23card.html?ex=1319256000&en=5ecec83b0ac06bd8&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Warren Kumari >> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 1:34 PM [ mild snippage ] >> These are trivial to clone -- all you need is a reader hooked up to a PC >> and you can read the number off the card. You can then buy a batch of -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York
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