Research signals safer smart cards

[Dave Paris]

On Tuesday, Dec 10, 2002, at 08:48 US/Eastern, Eugen Leitl wrote:

>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/28489.html
>
> Research signals safer smart cards
> By ComputerWire
> Posted: 09/12/2002 at 22:49 GMT
>
>
>
> Cryptography Research Inc, the company behind the design of the SSL 
> v3.0
> protocol that is used to secure transactions on the world wide web, 
> claims
> to have discovered a new class of attacks that could be used by 
> hackers to
> extract secret keys and information from smart cards and secure
> cryptographic tokens.

Netscape Communications was the company behind SSL v3.0, Paul Kocher 
was an Independent Consultant on the project, not as an acting agent 
for Cryptography Research, Inc.

http://wp.netscape.com/eng/ssl3/draft302.txt

-dsp


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