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by infinity0 3715 days ago
> Behind the user-friendly façade of chip and pin are cryptographic techniques of industrial strength.

oh dear... the rest of the article was good, though.

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They also claimed that all crypto is based on prime numbers, while bitcoin is actually not, and called hashes "encryption". They sound like they sort of know what they're talking about, but jump to conclusions and assume their educated guesses are correct without looking them up.