ID card security: Spain is facing chaos over chip crypto flaws | #CyberSecurity #Infinion (#Germany) | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
From www.zdnet.com - November 17, 2017 4:28 PM
When security researchers discovered last month that secure hardware made by Germany's Infineon Technologies was not so secure after all, it was clear that there would be major implications.

There are a lot of smartcards and other devices out there with Infineon's chips in them, and the 'ROCA' flaw in Infineon's key pair-generation algorithm made it possible for someone to discover a target's private key just by knowing what their public key was.

Now, in an analogous situation to that recently experienced in Estonia, Spain seems to be having a tough -- and arguably more chaotic -- time dealing with the implications for its national identity smartcards.

Estonia's big security flaw only affected around 760,000 cards, although Estonians genuinely use their cards for a great variety of public and private services.

Against that figure, there are around 60 million identity smartcards in Spain. However, according to an El País article, Spaniards were only using theirs in 0.02 percent of public-service engagements when surveyed a few years back.

 

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