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**InfinitySupport** · 12-07-2008, 20:10

Hello,

Smart-cards that was used by Infinity-Box has some difference (counter has more than 3 tries, other card-reader, hardware interface is different) in compare with JAF smart-card but theory and communication is very similar.
So if it was released any kind of software that has a target to kill smart-cards (we can see very different explanations about situation from people who involved in JAF project) connected to PC we have a quite danger situation and all smart-cards is under attack.
In fact 10 tries in compare with tries gives zero advantage due to time required to make 3 or 10 tries is very small (just a seconds), so I suggest to everybody to be quite careful.

12-07-2008, 20:10	#4 (permalink)
InfinitySupport Product Manager Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: infinity-box Posts: 38,635 Member: 130995 Status: Offline Thanks Meter: 35,227	Hello, Smart-cards that was used by Infinity-Box has some difference (counter has more than 3 tries, other card-reader, hardware interface is different) in compare with JAF smart-card but theory and communication is very similar. So if it was released any kind of software that has a target to kill smart-cards (we can see very different explanations about situation from people who involved in JAF project) connected to PC we have a quite danger situation and all smart-cards is under attack. In fact 10 tries in compare with tries gives zero advantage due to time required to make 3 or 10 tries is very small (just a seconds), so I suggest to everybody to be quite careful.