From: Paul Guyot (pguyot_at_kallisys.net)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 08:44:16 PDT
>Paul, why don't you take something easier to remember as PIN, e.g. your
>telephone number. You would never loose it because it is a million times
>printed in the phone book and you could retrieve it in each phone cabinet.
>You could DES encrypt it too, or simply scramble it.
Actually my problem wasn't to crack the pin to login to my Newton (I
know exactly how to bypass this protection and I have access to
another Newton and memory cards), but rather to find back the pin of
this credit card before the machine eats it and without asking my
bank to reissue the code (you can't choose your credit card pin in
France).
And the DES encryption (which is in fact a DES hash) is a method used
in the Newton to store the password. I don't mind about storing my
Newton's pin anywhere as I used it several times a day - hence, when
I get a new credit card, I set my Newton's pin to its code so I learn
it quite rapidly. However, if I happen to not use my credit cards'
codes a lot, experience shows that I forget them :-/
Paul
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