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On September 11 th 2001, 2 planes were flown into the New York Twin Towers while another was flown into the Pentagon. The main problem came from the fact that the terrorists were able to fly the planes without authorization. In [1], the interest of identifying the pilot before obeying his orders has been discussed and the need for smart cards having no secret inside has been raised (these cards could be stolen or lost with no damage for their security). One of the main ideas of [1] is to identify in a secure way, the pilot. The case when the legal pilot is the terrorist himself is treated in [1] but is out of the scope of this paper.
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Geneste, JF. (2002). A Very Smart Card for Fighting Against Terrorism. In: Ghonaimy, M.A., El-Hadidi, M.T., Aslan, H.K. (eds) Security in the Information Society. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 86. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35586-3_43
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