Estonian authorities block national ID cards over ROCA smartcard security flaw

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Estonia has binned its national ID cards over smartcard security flaws - obliging citizens to get new ones

The Baltic state of Estonia has rendered more than 760,000 national electronic ID cards useless after a cryptographic flaw was uncovered in the smartcards. Estonian authorities found that cyber ...

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