[68250] in Cypherpunks
Re: DES cracker.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Howland)
Fri Oct 18 08:12:48 1996
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 13:54:35 +0200
From: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>
To: "Geoffrey C. Grabow" <gcg@pb.net>
Cc: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>, sameer@c2.org, trei@process.com,
rah@shipwright.com, mac-crypto@thumper.vmeng.com, coderpunks@toad.com,
cypherpunks@toad.com
Geoffrey C. Grabow wrote:
>
> Tell me what you need. A large part of my job is providing hardware
> security modules to banks to secure (among other things) their ATM networks
> (Automated Teller MAchines, not Async Transfer Mode). Do you need PIN
> encryption formats, transmission message protocols, or what? Just LMK.
It would be nice to get some confirmation that PINs are generated using
a DES encryption of the account number.
Gary
--
"Of course the US Constitution isn't perfect; but it's a lot better
than what we have now." -- Unknown.
pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>
Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06
