[Gllug] On the topic (kinda) of bank cards...

Tue May 2 07:16:24 UTC 2006

On Tue 02 May, Russell Howe wrote:
> 
> I stumbled across ISO 8583
> 
> It's not really a description of the communications that take place when
> you use your card, but rather the encoding and protocol that's used to
> transmit them.
> 
> Still, I found it interesting to read about.
> 
> There's a wikipedia page for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8583
> 
   I understood that there was a shared facility that handled transactions
for many banking organisations.

-- 
Chris Bell

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