In Oregon there's no strip (yet) but there is a barcode. If you scan the barcode you'll get year, month, day of your birth and then your drivers license number. For example:
198001311234567 -Novak ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 8:01 AM Subject: RE: Scanning a Drivers License > I would imagine your DL number as well. > > Thanks! > Robert Bailey > Famous for nothing > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bosky, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:58 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Scanning a Drivers License > > > How much information is actually on the DL card? > Is only the printed information(name,address,etc.) available from the strip? > > Regards, > > Dave Bosky > Sr. Multimedia Web Designer > Horry Telephone Cooperative, Inc. > office: (843)369-8613 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:51 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Scanning a Drivers License > > > Good question. I doubt that they are encrypted, though. > > But I could be completely wrong, as I have never worked with drivers > licenses. But here is why I do not think they would be. I am originally from > MD, and when I was in MD about a year and a half ago, all the clubs and > liqueur stores had card readers that when they took your DL, they swiped it > and it displayed your age to them, ensuring that it was not fake and was > real. I would imagine this data could not be retrieved if it was encrypted > and I doubt they would make the key publicly available if it was encrypted. > > > Thanks! > Robert Bailey > Famous for nothing > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bosky, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:35 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Scanning a Drivers License > > > What about encryption? Wouldn't DL information somehow be encrypted? > > Regards, > > Dave Bosky > Sr. Multimedia Web Designer > Horry Telephone Cooperative, Inc. > office: (843)369-8613 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:28 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Scanning a Drivers License > > > Not sure if you could use a smartcard reader, which I think reads track 1 > and 2, and I am pretty sure that most DL's are on these tracks except the CA > drivers license, which is on track 3. > > Anyway, I have worked with magnetic card readers using Java, and it really > was not a hard task to do, with Smart Cards and credit cards anyway. You can > pick up the readers for about 80 dollars or so, at least you could about 8 > months ago, the last time I worked with them. > > I would contact the vendor to make sure that it will read a drivers license, > though. A good place to start would be http://www.javapos.com/index.html > > If you can use the smart card readers, there are a few java and C products > out there that can get you on your way. Check out the Javapos site, thanks > Sun!, for some really good information to start with. > > Thanks! > Robert Bailey > Famous for nothing > > > -----Original Message----- > From: webguy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:10 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Scanning a Drivers License > > > > Hi All, > > > Has anyone here done anything with interfacing with a drivers license > > scanner? > > > A client of mine has made request for an application that can read a > drivers > > license mag strip. There doesn't seem to be a lot of info available on the > > web about this. > > > http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=Ma > gnetic+Stripe+Readers+programming > > You will need to write something in C or Java most likely > > WG > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
