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Re:White House Looks at Replacing Social Security Numbers by snuxoll on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:37PM (#15397140)
This attack doesn’t work with smart cards that basically do nothing but act as a HSM. The MITM attack works with a loophole in some EMV cards because the card isn’t signing a transaction request but just saying “PIN is good!”

If your card holds a private key and won’t sign anything without also being fed a correct PIN you’d need a proper exploit of the application on the card to defeat it.

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