Defeating The Smartcard Code-Crackers, Innovations-report Bookmark and Share

Excerpts: Smart as they are, the protective codes of smart cards can be cracked using off-the-shelf technology. But the latest secure chips developed by one European team may soon be better equipped to defeat would-be attackers. (...) "It takes little more than an oscilloscope and a standard PC to mount a digital attack on an unprotected smartcard," says (...), which aims to increase the security of chips on smart cards. With equipment like this and some know-how, attackers can expose the content that a smart card is supposed to protect. (...)