Tool to backup, modify and clone ePassport released

Roland Perry ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Sat, 4 Oct 2008 08:45:52 +0100


In article <82C58533-7DCB-4F47-8EA4-5700159FE03F@batten.eu.org>, Ian 
Batten <igb@batten.eu.org> writes
>Using magic numbers like passport number, SSN, NHS number as ``only you 
>can know this'' identifiers clearly doesn't work: no-one seriously 
>suggests that the they are, or indeed can be, simultaneously kept 
>confidential and used as general purpose identifiers.

Although there is a widespread belief that you *can* do this with SSNs, 
amongst the public and many bureaucrats/administrators in the USA.
-- 
Roland Perry