Smart card aims to fight fraud

[Roland Perry]

In message <004501c1cb3d$e0eda9c0$47b2fea9@bis>, Peter Tomlinson
<pwt@iosis.co.uk> writes
>I can't clearly see what the promoters mean by a number that keeps on
>changing - they might just mean the random number, generated by the card,
>which is used in some security challenges and also for generating session
>keys.

I'd guess it was something like the new Amex "one-shot numbers" scheme:

http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/07/1421221.shtml
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