[Cryptography] French credit card has time-varying PIN

[Howard Chu]

Jerry Leichter wrote:
>> PS: How many US cards don't have chips now?  All mine have for at
>> least a year.  A few of them even have PINs.
> All of mine have them, though it took until some time this summer.  I suspect all the majors have rolled out chip cards - it's to their advantage since they can dump liability on vendors once they have a chip card out there.
>
> Around here, probably 2/3 of the places I regularly use cards at read the chip.  I have yet to see a gas station that takes it, though.  Most of the chip readers are very annoyingly slow - a few have gotten dramatically better, but not most.
>
> On another note ... when I was in Europe a few weeks back, I used my chip card - which I carefully get a pin for.  Pretty much no one asked for the pin - the card readers all spit back a "get signature" to the vendor.

Yep, I noticed the same. Quite annoying, so you still can't use them at e.g. 
subway ticket kiosks and the like.

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