A Sweet Taste for Intruders: Honey Encryption

With the BA hack recently in the headlines, and where over 380,000 customers could have had their credit card details stolen, 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

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Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. EU Citizen. Auld Reekie native. Old World Breaker. New World Creator.

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