In internet banking how does the automatic PIN generator work?
Question by sh: In internet banking how does the automatic PIN generator work?
Sometimes I ve seen people who use internet banking carry around a small key-tag like gadget which when pressed will generate a PIN number to access their accounts online.
Whats this system called? And how does it work?
How does the server in the bank know what random PIN number is generated?
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Answer by David D
Basically, you take a seed number, the current time, and a complicated bit of maths, and you get a different number. The server and the gadget both know all three of those (each gadget gets a different number) so generate the same numbers at the same times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecurID has more details.
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