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Old August 9th 08, 06:41 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Jarle H Knudsen Jarle H Knudsen is offline
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Default Grit in the Oyster
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 09:36:23 -0700 (PDT), Boltar wrote:

If he'd been doing his job properly he'd have choisen the DES
encrypted MiFARE system, not the bargain basement hackable one thats
been around for ages.

DES is a deprecated cryptographic block cipher that falls to brute force
attacks due to its short 56-bit key. It has been superseded by AES.

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