From: "Tumbleweed" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: ATM fraud and C&P
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:08:28 -0000


 wrote in message news:30ggtjF2v9rvdU3@uni-berlin.de...
> Tumbleweed  wrote:
>>
>> >> and the machine just compares the pin you entered with the
>> >> decrypted PIN from the mag stripe.
>> >
>> > Decrypting and comparing is so last-century.  The hip way is to 
>> > *encrypt*
>> > and compare.
>>
>> We are talking 1980 or thereabouts. It *was* last century!
>
> ... and Unix systems (for example) were doing 'encrypt and compare'
> from some time before that I suspect.
>
> -- 
> Chris Green

Good point they were.

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