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Re: [Fwd: FYI: German court on 56-bit crypto]



Rigo Wenning (Rigo Wenning <wenning2@rz.uni-sb.de>) wrote:

> FYI aus der GILC - Liste.
>
> Ist darüber weiteres bekannt ?
>
> Gruss
>
> Rigo
>
>
> Jim Dempsey wrote:
> >
> > >GERMAN COURT RULING ANOTHER BLOW TO U.S. ENCRYPTION STANDARD
> > >     (Source: The Industry Standard) A German district court has
> > >ordered a bank in Frankfurt to repay a customer for money withdrawn
> > >from her bank account after her bank card was stolen. In the
Auf der Krypto-Liste kam das die tage vorbei:

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From:           	"Oliver Frömel" <ofroemel@prs-
gmbh.de>
To:             	krypto@rhein-main.de
Date sent:      	Wed, 23 Sep 1998 17:16:38 +0200
Subject:        	[FWD] German court: DES is no
good
Send reply to:  	krypto@rhein-main.de



... ich weiß, das hat Andy schon am 20.
erwähnt....
Weiter Infos im Chaos Realitäts Dienst
http://www.ccc.de/CRD/CRD210998.html

---------------------- Forwarded by Oliver
Frömel/PRS GmbH on 23.09.98
16:09 ---------------------------
http://www.thestandard.net/articles/display/0,144
9,1780,00.html

German Court Ruling Another Blow To U.S.
Encryption Standard
By Mary Lisbeth D'Amico

MUNICH - A German district court has ordered a
bank in Frankfurt to repay a
customer 4,543 marks (US$2,699) for money
withdrawn from her bank account
after her bank card was stolen.

The decision, made public Monday, again points
to the holes in the 56-bit
encryption technology used in Eurocheque cards,
called EC Cards, according
to
the Chaos Computer Club, a German hackers group.

Calling the encryption technology for the EC
bank cards "out-of-date and
not
safe enough," a Frankfurt District Court held
the bank responsible for the
amount stolen from the 72-year old plaintiff in
February 1997. Neither the
bank's name or that of the plaintiff were
revealed.

An EC card is like a bank card which can be used
at bank automats and
point-of-sale terminals throughout Europe. The
cards feature the U.S.
government's data encryption standard, which
uses 56-bit encrypted code to
scramble the security information.

[Rest snipped]





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