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You would need to be a clever cookie to tamper with bricon Sir, I read with interest the letters relating to ETS that appear in the British Homing World, and it fills me a great deal of dismay knowing the harm that is being done to our sport when these letters stir up unfounded doubt and suspicion. In many cases the letters are written from a position of fear and ignorance and this is a great shame now that many fanciers have now embraced electronic timing in this the tenth racing season of ETS within the RPRA. I do not wish to become embroiled in a war of words and have no intention of entering into further correspondence on the matter, but as the UK agent for Bricon and in the interests of enlightenment may I share an extract from a letter that I wrote to the Clock Committee of the RPRA last year, which may help calm the level of anxiety raised by some of these letters with regard to the so-called cloning of electronic chip rings. â€œThe Bricon timing system has more security features than most people are aware of or indeed would even think possible. Each and every electronic chip used for ETS is given a unique electronic chip number or â€˜eâ€™ number. This is an 8 character code made up of numbers and letters of which there are 4.29 billion combinations. Each ETS company was assigned its own series of code numbers by the RPRA back in 2007, ensuring that there would be no cross allocation of numbers and also enabling each brand of master to instantly recognise which brand of chip and clock it was dealing with and how therefore to proceed. The first main layer of security within the Bricon system is guaranteed by the Bricon clone protection key. Each Bricon electronic chip has its 8 character chip number which is visible and printed on all paperwork such as allocation lists and race basketing lists. Additionally each Bricon electronic chip also has a unique hidden security key code generated by an encrypted algorithm from its chip number and programmed into the chip by Bricon when the electronic chip is produced. This security key code is never shown and is not accessible by anyone. The system checks that the visible chip number and the hidden security key code associated to it match each other, and if they do not, say because of an attempt to create a cloned ring without read/write technology, then the so-called cloned electronic chip would not be admissible. A genuine Bricon electronic chip ring therefore can not be cloned by a non read/write chip because even if you had the ability to enter a legitimate 8 character chip number into a blank electronic chip, you would not have the means of knowing the secret security key code that would also need to be entered in order for it be accepted as a genuine read/write Bricon chip. The second main layer of security relates to the use of the electronic chip. Each and every time that an electronic chip is basketed for a race, a new random secret race code is written into the chip ring by the master system. When a chip is subsequently timed from that race, the secret race code held within the chip must match that held within the system as having been given at race basketing. Obviously a so-called cloned ring placed onto the antenna pad before the birds are home is not going to have the same secret code as the electronic ring on the bird that went through the basketing process - so the system would flag up an error message on the clocking print out indicating that an attempt at malpractice may have taken place. Security is therefore guaranteed provided the chip used in the race marking process is actually on the pigeon and remains on the pigeon right through the basketing process, so that the pigeon and the electronic chip make it to the race liberation.â€ Best regards Mark Palmer Bricon UK by bristolkev Thu Jul 28, 2016 6:13 pm Forum: PIGEON CHAT Topic: Eamon Kelly apology Replies: 516 Views: 15786