If I recall correctly, this is the second case in Germany causing electronic cheaps to become inactive. Earlier last year it was with healthcare cards.
ITschak On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Bernd Oppolzer <bernd.oppol...@t-online.de>wrote: > Cool. Interesting, that I did not find this obvious work-around by myself. > Maybe my brain refuses to take such ways of "correcting one error by > inserting another" into account. > > Happy new year 200A to you all :-) > > > Robert A. Rosenberg schrieb: > >> At 23:34 +0100 on 01/08/2010, Bernd Oppolzer wrote about Re: y2k10 problem >> with credit cards in Germany: >> >>> >>> But recent news sound as if the truth is more complicated. The >>> communication between the EMV chip and the ATM could be very sophisticated, >>> involving lots of messages in both directions, and only some of these >>> message types are affected by this error. So maybe there is a way to still >>> use the authorization capabilities of the chip, but only using message types >>> not affected by the error. Maybe the ATMs inside germany and the POS >>> terminals can now be patched in such a way. >>> >> >> Since the error is occurring between the ATM and the Chip (but not between >> the ATM and any other machine) just patch the ATM to send the year as x'0a' >> not x'10' in those messages sent to the chip which have a date in them. >> Since the chip is now getting a 'valid' date, it will work correctly until >> the chips are fixed and replaced. >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
