30 Jan
2003
30 Jan
'03
5:18 p.m.
Before you jump to the conclusion that you could just steal the black box from the ATM and have access, but if you till it, it forgets all the keys. Also during normal operation two separate people have to enter two parts of the key. This way no single bank employee has access to both parts of the key.
The product Krzystof mentions is likely similar to : http://gpsonsale.com/ibmcryptographiccards/products/IBM4758-002.htm http://www-3.ibm.com/security/cryptocards/ An interesting read regarding breaking into one of these black boxes : http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/descrack/ - Mike