[Gllug] Chip and PIN
Chris Ebenezer
chriseb at gmail.com
Wed May 10 23:43:52 UTC 2006
On 5/10/06, John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 17:36 +0100, Chris Ebenezer wrote:
> >
> > It is stored (encrypted) on the mag stripe
>
> No it isn't. You can buy the specification for what goes on the mag
> stripe in a British Standard and there is no field for the PIN.
>
You are quite right. I should have said 'It is stored (encrypted in
some way) on the chip'.
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chris
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