Re: OT: Banc of America Article

2003-01-30 Thread Paul Timmins
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 15:39, Krzysztof Adamski wrote: > Based on this you can see that re-encoding is needed when you change the > PIN number, most ATM will do that re-encoding. So unless things have > changed in the last 4 years since I worked with this, you can not change > your PIN over the ph

Re: OT: Banc of America Article

2003-01-30 Thread Mike Hogsett
> Before you jump to the conclusion that you could just steal the black > box from the ATM and have access, but if you till it, it forgets all the > keys. Also during normal operation two separate people have to enter > two parts of the key. This way no single bank employee has access to > both

RE: OT: Banc of America Article

2003-01-30 Thread Krzysztof Adamski
sage- > > From: Krzysztof Adamski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 3:39 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: OT: Banc of America Article > > > > > > > > Since nobody has given the correct information abou

RE: OT: Banc of America Article

2003-01-30 Thread Temkin, David
tof Adamski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 3:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: OT: Banc of America Article > > > > Since nobody has given the correct information about the PIN > on the card I will give a very brief descripti

Re: OT: Banc of America Article

2003-01-30 Thread Krzysztof Adamski
Since nobody has given the correct information about the PIN on the card I will give a very brief description. There are two types of PIN, natural and customer selected. The natural PIN is computed from the number on the card. The computation involves one way crypto keys. I don't remember the alg

Re: OT: Banc of America Article

2003-01-29 Thread Sharif Torpis
Halleluljah. A voice of knowledge as opposed to conjecture. Different bank ATMs operate differently. There are online and offline modes. The PIN may or may not be recorded on the card. Some of these differences are due to the fact that not all financial institutions were connected to interbank ne

Re: OT: Banc of America Article

2003-01-29 Thread David Charlap
Al Rowland wrote: The PIN is on your card ... Not for any card I've ever owned. I've changed my PIN several times over the years, and the bank has never re-encoded my card or sent me a new card as a result of doing so. Maybe some banks do store the PIN on the card, but I'm certain that it'

Re: OT: Banc of America Article

2003-01-29 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:35:37AM -0800, Al Rowland wrote: > > The PIN is on your card, likely encrypted, We're off-topic now, so I won't go into detail, but the PIN is sometimes on the card and sometimes not. There are different ways of doing it. (If the sampling of cards in my wallet is re