Re: Changing PINs of German bank card

2017-07-15 Thread Binarus
On 15.07.2017 11:17, Andy Ruddock wrote: > Just as a point of interest > >> I am not sure if this is an intentional limitation of the cards (to >> prevent users from choosing idiotic pins like 1234 or their birthday). > > I know of somebody who had 1234 issued as their PIN for a UK bank >

Re: Changing PINs of German bank card

2017-07-15 Thread Binarus
On 15.07.2017 16:40, MFPA wrote: > > > On Thursday 13 July 2017 at 7:18:41 AM, in > , Binarus wrote:- > > >> I don't think so. Banking chip cards contain >> mechanisms for local PIN >> verification. You can see that an ATM (or the card) >>

Re: Changing PINs of German bank card

2017-07-15 Thread Binarus
On 15.07.2017 12:36, MFPA wrote: > > > On Wednesday 12 July 2017 at 11:01:35 AM, in > , Binarus wrote:- > > >> As far as I know, no bank will be able to tell you >> your PIN if you have >> forgotten it > > They can in the UK. For example,

Re: Changing PINs of German bank card

2017-07-15 Thread Andrew Gallagher
> On 15 Jul 2017, at 15:40, MFPA <2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net> > wrote: > > On the shopping > website, the customer keys in the long card number, the PIN, and the > last three digits from the signature strip. The chip on the card is > not involved. No, the chip on the card is not

gpg-agent/pinentry: How to verify calling application

2017-07-15 Thread Hartmut Knaack
Hi, on my machine running Linux and a recent KDE/Plasma, pinentry-qt occasionally starts right after logging in and asks for my passphrase. Is there any way to track down, which process asks gpg-agent for my private key? Preferably, I would like pinentry to inform, which process actually is the

Re: Changing PINs of German bank card

2017-07-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 15:40:25 +0100 MFPA <2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net> wrote: Hello MFPA, >All of which is irrelevant for online transactions. On the shopping >website, the customer keys in the long card number, the PIN, and the Entered a card *PIN* into a shopping web site?

Re: Changing PINs of German bank card

2017-07-15 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thursday 13 July 2017 at 7:18:41 AM, in , Binarus wrote:- > I don't think so. Banking chip cards contain > mechanisms for local PIN > verification. You can see that an ATM (or the card) >

Re: Changing PINs of German bank card

2017-07-15 Thread Matthias Apitz
On Saturday, 15 July 2017 11:17:18 CEST, Andy Ruddock wrote: Just as a point of interest I am not sure if this is an intentional limitation of the cards (to prevent users from choosing idiotic pins like 1234 or their birthday). I know of somebody who had 1234

Re: Changing PINs of German bank card

2017-07-15 Thread Andy Ruddock
Just as a point of interest > I am not sure if this is an intentional limitation of the cards (to > prevent users from choosing idiotic pins like 1234 or their birthday). I know of somebody who had 1234 issued as their PIN for a UK bank account (it IS as random a selection as any other 4-digit

Re: Changing PINs of German bank card

2017-07-15 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Wednesday 12 July 2017 at 11:10:12 AM, in , Peter Lebbing wrote:- > Also, back when you could do payments with the > magstripe (which, AFAIK, > can still be done in some countries,

Re: Changing PINs of German bank card

2017-07-15 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Wednesday 12 July 2017 at 11:01:35 AM, in , Binarus wrote:- > As far as I know, no bank will be able to tell you > your PIN if you have > forgotten it They can in the UK. For example, see