[Gllug] Oyster cards vulnerable?

[Richard Jones]

The Dutch OV card (similar to Oyster) uses a secret proprietary crypto
algorithm and a 48 bit key.  Rather predictably, it was broken by
researchers this month:

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1250

According to the press release, Oyster cards are of the same type:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~kn5f/OV-card_security.html

Rich.

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