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Tachographs * UK - Digital signatures hit the road
Since 2006 trucks in Europe have been using digital tachographs
Cambridge,UK -Light Blue Touchpaper/Security Research, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge,by Ross Anderson -July 11, 2007: -- Tachographs record a vehicle’s speed history and help enforce restrictions on drivers’ working hours. For many years they have used circular waxed paper charts, which have been accepted in court as evidence just like any other paper record. However, paper charts are now being replaced with smartcards. Each driver has a card that records 28 days of infringement history, protected by digital signatures. So we’ve now got the first widely-deployed system in which digital sigantures are routinely adduced in evidence. The signed records are being produced to support prosecutions for working too long hours, for speeding, for tachograph tampering, and sundry other villainy...
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