Output details
11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of Birmingham
Output title
A Traceability Attack against e-Passports
Type
E - Conference contribution
Name of conference/published proceedings
Financial Cryptography and Data Security : 14th International Conference, FC 2010, Tenerife, Canary Islands, January 25-28, 2010, Revised Selected Papers
Volume number
6052
Issue number
-
First page of article
20
ISSN of proceedings
0302-9743
Year of publication
2010
URL
-
Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
<19>The specification for e-passports requires that they should be untraceable. However, we found that passports could be tracked due to a flaw in the protocol (French passports), and a side channel attack (all passports). This threatens the privacy of the millions of people that own e-passports. We reported this to the International Civil Aviation Organization, following which the flaw in the French e-passport was fixed. This work led to several invited talks, a keynote speech at RFID Security and Cryptography and media coverage, including UK and German radio interviews. It forms part of one of our REF impact case studies.
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
E - Security and Privacy
Citation count
7
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
