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Comment by dave_universetf

In the case of this attack, somewhere between 40s and 30min of physical access, depending on how the card was set up. In the case of a hotel, the spicy card to clone would be the cleaning staff's, which conveniently also admits a reasonable explanation for the card going temporarily missing (e.g. abandon it one corridor over, oops must have dropped it while doing the rounds).

Depending on the specifics of a deployment, I'm guessing you could also use the card secrets to mint new cards that authenticate correctly to facility readers, but contain different information? But I don't know nearly enough about how these cards get used to know how much flexibility you get there.

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