News - Victorinox challenges Brits to hack biometric-encrypted Secure Pro pen drive

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£100,000 prize for anyone who can crack the Swiss army knife of USB pen drives.

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I assume the challenge is the break the encryption and not fool the biometric sensor, because that would be... well... really easy.

Not exactly giving much chance to the hackers if they're only giving them 2 hours to be honest.

Quite true, I'm sure once a method has been determined it could be done with time to spare, but it could take a lot of work to figure that method out.

really, it appears to be a RF scanner, which doesn't aim to scan the fingerprint on the surface of the finger, but rather underneath the surface. Not that easy at all to fake!

I'm assuming that they're not just using the fingerprint scanner for access control (if that where the case it would be easy enough, if destructive testing where allowed, to pull the memory and solder it on a similar usb stick), rather as a method for generating a key for decrypting the data. this would then require some sort of brute force method, or some sort of dictionary based attack using synthetic fingerprints

so i cant just turn up with a hammer? :(

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Originally Posted by Georgy291

so i cant just turn up with a hammer? :(

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Dont be silly!

To "hack" it you will need some form of axe.