Flip side: why are all these countries/users panicking *now*? The vuln was disclosed to Infineon in *February*. This means 6 months of "responsible" disclosure have been utterly worthless. You'd think Infineon would've notified, you know, government clients? WTF? @CRoCS_MUNI
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Replying to @marcan42 @CRoCS_MUNI
My guess wold be that Infineon notified smartcard *chip makers* but they didn't bother informing their customers in turn. Maybe we can ask
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You mean smartcard manufacturers, as in the physical bits of plastic and some gold pads? Infineon makes the ICs.
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hm really? I thought it's guys like NXP, Gemalto etc.
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NXP and Infineon make ICs (and software libs). Gemalto makes cards that use those ICs (and more software).
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Replying to @marcan42 @CRoCS_MUNI
Interesting, thanks. However, I wonder why ID cards are affected at all. Aren't the private keys/certificates usually generated centrally on dedicated govt hardware and only the public keys are programmed into the cards? Do the cards still generate some keys on their own?
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Replying to @IgorSkochinsky @CRoCS_MUNI
The whole point of using smartcards is that you generate the keys internally (and they never leave the card), then the govt signs the public key (presumably with some channel attestation involved so the card can prove it's a real card issued originally by govt).
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Replying to @marcan42 @CRoCS_MUNI
hm, looks like it. Here's how it works (worked?) for Belgian IDs, which also has (had?) Infineon chip: https://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~decockd/slides/2006.10.09.belgian.eid.card.technical.overview.presentation.pdf …pic.twitter.com/iqupy8Qgzx
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FWIW this is the kind of stuff you get in a spanish eID cert (This is an expired cert from my 2.0 ID, so not ROCA). Not sure if the issuance process is documented though (probably not, because Spain isn't known for doing things right).pic.twitter.com/FaOhJ1yiTP
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