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by pilkington 3281 days ago
You can decipher some of the fields printed on the receipt using https://tvr-decoder.appspot.com. The acronyms are from the EMV specs (https://www.emvco.com/specifications.aspx?id=223, probably book 3)

Eg. TVR: 0000008000 (Byte 4 Bit 8) Transaction exceeds floor limit

Floor limit being the $/EUR/whatever amount that could be approved offline.

The 2 in the diagram appears to be pointing at a cleartext credit card number.