On 05/09/09 07:33, Jerry Leichter wrote:
I had a discussion with a guy at a company that was proposing to create secure credit cards by embedding a chip in the card and replacing some number of digits with an LCD display. The card would generate a unique card number for you when needed. They actually had the technology working - the card was pretty much indistinguishable from any other. (Of course, how rugged it would be in typical environments is another question - but they claimed they had a solution.)
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