Tuesday 29 December 2009

Legic Prime Has No Cryptography at All

This is really weird: Karsten Nohl and Hendryk Plötz have shown that the Legic Prime contactless smart cards neither a random generator nor an encryption algorithm. Users of Legic Prime are recommended to upgrade to Legic Advant which contains AES and is compliant to FIPS 201.

Heise article (german)



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