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.
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Roland Perry