Re: The Times: Cloned e-passports f iasco renews calls for £4.7bn ID card s cheme to be axed

[Peter Tomlinson]

James Firth wrote:
> The Times: Cloned e-passports fiasco renews calls for £4.7bn ID card scheme
> to be axed
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4474143.ece
>
> "After The Times disclosed that new passports could be cloned and
> manipulated in minutes and would then be accepted as genuine, MPs also gave
> warning of serious implications for the security of the Government's £4.7
> billion identity card scheme."
Yesterday's articles  - start at:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4467106.ece
and there are two more articles linked to that - pointed out that there 
are two stages to the protection, and only one has been broken.

The other stage involves a global public key server, so how long before 
a bogus key pair is generated and the public key inserted into the server?

Peter