Dutch Transport Card Broken

[James A. Donald]

Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Ed Felten has an interesting post on his blog about a Dutch smartcard
> based transportation payment system that has been broken. Among other
> foolishness, the designers used a custom cryptosystem and 48 bit keys.
> 
> http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1250

The Dutch government paid two billion dollars for stupidity, for 
foolishness that almost anyone on this list could have told them was 
foolish.  Secret algorithm!


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