Tool to backup, modify and clone ePassport released

[Igor Mozolevsky]

2008/10/3 Ian Batten:

> If I could trivially extract all the data from my passport and decode it,
> that would increase faith in the transparency of the documents.  It wouldn't
> be ``those with nothing to hide'', it would be ``this is nothing to hide''.

I think the more worrying aspect would be the ability to read and
clone/alter the data especially if you have a single document that is
the holy grail of your "identity" (as the gov't sees it). I assume a
simple replay attack doesn't work on those chips, right?

--
Igor