Mar 12

Popular smartcard cracked

Tag: (i)realidad,Informática Legal — Joaquim Anguas @ 4:06 pm

The research team was able to obtain the card’s proprietary encryption scheme by physically dissecting its chip and examining it under a microscope. They then photographed various levels of its circuitry and used optical recognition software to produce a 3D representation of the entire chip. By examining the logic gates in great detail, they were able to deduce the proprietary algorithm, which NXP dubs Crypto1.

From theregister.