Re: DES info wanted

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From: Ken Yap
Date: Fri, 08 May 1987 02:14

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This is only vaguely related to DES so maybe I should have changed the
subject line.

A friend of mine discovered something interesting about the way some
(all?) ATM's work. He put in a non-participating bank's card and the
machine cycled him through the whole validation sequence before
spitting out the card with the message "invalid card" or something like
that. So it looks like the ATM makes up a whole package of info before
firing it off to the mainframe. I can just imagine the Cobol code,
yuk!

	Ken

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From: ken@rochester.ARPA (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: DES info wanted
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Date: Thu, 7-May-87 22:14:05 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  7 22:14:05 1987
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Keywords: DES, UNIX

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