Remember Assignment 1?

Airline Security a Waste of Cash by Bruce Schneier:

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,69712,00.html

RFID Passports approved

Passports to get RFID chip implants!


C|Net article

A few other interesting articles (also linked from above article):

• Department of State final rule about Electronic Passports : http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/05-21284.htm


• http://www.rfidkills.com/


• Security and Privacy Issues in E-passports – Juels, et al : http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/095.pdf

Hacking Las Vegas: The MIT Blackjack team inside story

Wired article. Adapted from Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of
Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions.

Very easy to read first person magazine-like writing style. [If only
computer science papers were like this! sigh!]

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/vegas.html

~Shan

Proving MD5 vulnerability

An interesting article with C# code which proves MD5 vulnerability

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/HackingMd5.asp

-Shan