Encryption of data in smart cards

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu Mar 13 02:32:39 EST 2003


On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:08:26 +0100 (MET), Krister Walfridsson said:

> This is not completely true -- I have seen some high-end cards that use
> the PIN code entered by the user as the encryption key.  And it is quite

Sorry my fault, by "read out the data" I meant to do this using a side
channel or with a hardware probe.
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