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Using Low-cost Cryptographic Hardware to 'Rob a Bank'
Thursday 31st October, 20:30
Comlab
Richard Clayton from Cambridge University Computer Laboratory will be talking about how he and his colleagues created a cheap device from "off-the-shelf" hardware which cracked the encryption on the IBM 4758 cryptographic co-processor (used by many banks) in a couple of days. FPGAs! 3DES! Buzzwords!