Snip from an item on Wikileaks:

Chip company NXP Semiconductors is to sue Radboud University in an

attempt to halt the publication of a paper detailing the cryptographic

cracking of the Oyster smartcard, used widely on the London transport

network.

The case is to be heard on Thursday in a court in Arnheim, NXP told

ZDNet.co.uk on Tuesday. However, an NXP spokesperson declined to give

any reasons at present for the company seeking to halt the publication.

Researchers from the Radboud University in Nijmegen last month claimed

to have cracked the security on the Oyster card, which uses an NXP

chipset called Mifare Classic. The research had led on from a

cryptographic crack of Mifare Classic by German researchers Karsten Nohl

and Henryk Pltz.

A spokesperson for Radboud University told ZDNet.co.uk that NXP wanted

to stop publication of the paper due to "safety reasons". However, the

spokesperson said that the university intended to proceed with the

publication of the research at the Esorics conference in Malaga in

October. The court is expected to reach a decision next week.