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A Sweet Taste for Intruders: Honey Encryption

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In the BA hack over 380,000 customers had their credit card details stolen, so let’s look at a way of making fake credit card details. In this case we will create an encryption method which makes the credit card values look valid, but where they are actually encrypted. It is basically the art of turning encrypted values into something which looks valid.

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.