From: Michael Froomkin <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 09:26:10 +0800
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Mondex
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Seth Godin, Presenting Digital Cash (1995) reports on p. 94:

Mondex "spent four years developing state-of-the-art protection against 
reverse engineering by finding the world's best reverse engineers and 
give them [sic] a shot a cracking the chip in their smart cards."

==details anyone?

Elsewhere, in the interview in the Appendix, Tim Jones admits they are 
currently vulnerable to a MITM attack, but promises a fix real soon.

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In other Mondex news, the American Banker newspaper reports they are going
to field test a card in a British university; it will do meals, copies,
etc... 

Any other Mondex news around?


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