IBM Crypto Up For Grabs?

An Anonymous Coward writes: "BBC Newsnight have tonight shown an article about a groups of hackers who are about to release details of the vulnerability of the IBM Cryptographical processors. ( Details here.) The BBC article can be watched online here. Alan Cox makes a starring role ;)" windowlicker adds some detail: "Mike Bond and Richard Clayton, from Cambridge University, have cracked IBM's 4758 crytoprocessor running the 'Common Cryptographic Architecture' (CCA). You can do the same with $1000-worth of hardware and the info from here. Many banks use this system for protecting PINs." The video file requires Real software; here's the BBC's article online for those of us without.

Comments

i hope they don't want to come to the us....

[taco1991]

or they could face the evil hand of the DMCA like Dmitry Sklyarov did. I wonder what would happen if the crackers had come from america, or if ibm will try to take those guys to court to protect their encryption.

on the other hand, it's already hit the net so it's a pratically public domain now ;)

t.