Good question. I doubt that they are encrypted, though. But I could be completely wrong, as I have never worked with drivers licenses. But here is why I do not think they would be. I am originally from MD, and when I was in MD about a year and a half ago, all the clubs and liqueur stores had card readers that when they took your DL, they swiped it and it displayed your age to them, ensuring that it was not fake and was real. I would imagine this data could not be retrieved if it was encrypted and I doubt they would make the key publicly available if it was encrypted.
Thanks! Robert Bailey Famous for nothing -----Original Message----- From: Bosky, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:35 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Scanning a Drivers License What about encryption? Wouldn't DL information somehow be encrypted? Regards, Dave Bosky Sr. Multimedia Web Designer Horry Telephone Cooperative, Inc. office: (843)369-8613 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Robert Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:28 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Scanning a Drivers License Not sure if you could use a smartcard reader, which I think reads track 1 and 2, and I am pretty sure that most DL's are on these tracks except the CA drivers license, which is on track 3. Anyway, I have worked with magnetic card readers using Java, and it really was not a hard task to do, with Smart Cards and credit cards anyway. You can pick up the readers for about 80 dollars or so, at least you could about 8 months ago, the last time I worked with them. I would contact the vendor to make sure that it will read a drivers license, though. A good place to start would be http://www.javapos.com/index.html If you can use the smart card readers, there are a few java and C products out there that can get you on your way. Check out the Javapos site, thanks Sun!, for some really good information to start with. Thanks! Robert Bailey Famous for nothing -----Original Message----- From: webguy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:10 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Scanning a Drivers License > Hi All, > Has anyone here done anything with interfacing with a drivers license > scanner? > A client of mine has made request for an application that can read a drivers > license mag strip. There doesn't seem to be a lot of info available on the > web about this. http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=Ma gnetic+Stripe+Readers+programming You will need to write something in C or Java most likely WG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4