There is the difference between those cards. The most is that MPCOS-EMV is
not EMV-compliant card (with the usual OS, sure), as you can see on VISA.com
("List of approved cards", I don't remember exactly and have no time to
check) MPCOS-EMV is only approved for Easy Entry. MPCOS-EMV is a good
product, but VISA and all the other already forget about this product. So,
...
Michael
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> From: Peter Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 6:21 PM
> Subject: [OCF] VISA Debit card
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> Hi everybody!
>
> I'm wondering if VISA Debit Smart card is supported by OCF.
> It's a card
> that
> follows the EMV specification, but in the supported device
> list from OCF I
> found Gemplus MPCOS-EMV to be the only EMV card supported. Is
> there any
> difference between those two cards or not, since they are
> both EMV cards?
> Does anyone know?
>
> If "my" card is not supported please tell me what to do!!!
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Fredrik
> <
>
> Fair enough for you to say this if it were an ideal world,
> but in practice
> a bank card is supposed only to be accessed froma type
> approved terminal,
> so exactly what the MPCOS-EMV card is I just do not know.
> Visa debit ought
> therefore to be supported only through OCF if the OCF
> software system has
> been approved by Visa...
>
> Peter
>
>
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