[46120] in Cypherpunks
Australian "calculatorcard"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cees de Groot)
Sat Dec 30 11:18:20 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 16:56:28 +0100 (MET)
From: "Cees de Groot" <cg@bofh.toad.com (none)>
Reply-To: <C.deGroot@inter.nl.net>
From: "Cees de Groot" <C.deGroot@inter.nl.net>
Hi everybody,
Yesterday, on UK Discovery, there was an item in the programme Beyond 2000
about an Australian card which implements a challenge-response protocol
and can be used for banking, etcetera. Basically, you give your card
number (over the phone), get a challenge number, enter your pin and
the challenge, and then give the response. All in CC format...
They plugged it as the ultimate identity-prover, so I'm kind of interested
in what's behind. Now, I know that Discovery constantly repeats old
stuff, so I'm not sure whether this is actually hot/new/...
Can anybody provide me with pointers to more in-depth information about
this device and the algorithm(s) behind it ?
Thanks
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