[Gllug] Chip and PIN

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:29:28AM +0200, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 May 2006 16:50, Alain Williams wrote:
> 
> > What worried me (at Tesco) was that a wire went from the keypad, to the
> > till, to the keyboard that contained the card. Since tills, today, are
> > programmable PCs (I know - I have worked with them) it would probably not
> > be too hard to snoop my pin passing via the PC. That could all be done by
> > remotely downloading an 'extra' module to the till and no one would be any
> > the wiser.
> pin pads, all, these days encrypt anything that goes off wire. Same applies to 
> both banking machines, and pin pads connected to terminal in any shop. The 
> only way someone can stole your PIN from the pad, is when you add one overlay 
> on it that would capture it. And believe me, ppl did that in the past - at 
> least for "The hole in the wall".

What sort of encryption ? Are you suggesting that the supply of the PIN
to the card is encrypted ?

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