[LINK] City launches fingerprint payment program

[Glen Turner]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 21:33 +1000, Rick Welykochy wrote:

> I am curious what encryption method is used on the chip. My guess is
> AES. Where is the key stored? And what is it? Perhaps the PIN itself?
> No ... the PIN on the mag strip is too easy to fetch.
> 
> More research required.

See the home page of Ross Anderson of Cambridge, who has written
extensively on bank ATM security (amidst a lot else).
  <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/>

-- 
 Glen Turner