Re:Postbank to replace 12M bank cards after employees steal ...
by briffle on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @01:18PM
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Interesting.. What Open source tools do you use for this? I would love to read further how I can not have a printed copy of a master key in a safety deposit box.
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Re:Postbank to replace 12M bank cards after employees steal ...
by PeterisP on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @05:43PM
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For card system master keys, you don't use open source tools, you buy a set of properly hardened hardware modules, and follow the appropriate (documented, tested, verified) 'rituals' on them. IIRC the set we used cost something in the ballpark of $50k-$100k, which is not really much compared to all the other things that are table stakes of doing it properly. You can do it much cheaper if the risks are lower and you need less tamper resistance and auditing because you're less likely to have (for example) one of the trusted authorised employees be malicious and willing to invest nontrivial effort in circumventing the system.
Because losing these keys can be very, very, very expensive.
For an example (somewhat similar to this Postbank case) see India Cosmos Bank 2018 incident (https://www.reuters.com/article/cyber-heist-india-idUSL4N1V5... is one link) where criminals generated fake cards to cash out some $13 million; and replacing 12M bank cards also has an huge cost to replace the cards (perhaps roughly $12M - $1 per card replacement is plausible though possibly on the cheap side) even if we ignore the reputation cost.
Re:Postbank to replace 12M bank cards after employees steal ...
by stefan_ on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @01:56PM
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Here is an implementation of this:
https://www.cloudflare.com/dns/dnssec/root-signing-ceremony/
They have a page for each signing ceremony:
https://www.iana.org/dnssec/ceremonies/41
With a script of everything done:
Re:Postbank to replace 12M bank cards after employees steal ...
by brohee on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @02:38PM
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You usually use your HSM vendor tooling, in the KCs I was involved the backup secrets were not only split between multiple holders but each holder held its part on a PIN protected smartcard.
Re:Postbank to replace 12M bank cards after employees steal ...
by fortran77 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @05:57PM
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We keep printed keys in a safe. I suppose if we were a bank we'd do it differently. They're in "tamper evident" envelopes, too. These are AWS master keys, Bitlocker encryption keys, etc.