OT: Banc of America Article

Thu Jan 30 22:18:58 UTC 2003

> Before you jump to the conclusion that you could just steal the black
> box from the ATM and have access, but if you till it, it forgets all the
> keys.  Also during normal operation two separate people have to enter
> two parts of the key. This way no single bank employee has access to
> both parts of the key.

The product Krzystof mentions is likely similar to :

http://gpsonsale.com/ibmcryptographiccards/products/IBM4758-002.htm

http://www-3.ibm.com/security/cryptocards/

An interesting read regarding breaking into one of these black boxes :

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/descrack/

 - Mike