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unusual facts about IBM 3624


IBM 3624

The PIN functions, with an early commercial encryption using the DES algorithm, were implemented in two modules - BQKPERS and BQKCIPH - and their export controlled under the US export munitions rules.


Decimalization table attack

In 2002 two PhD students at Cambridge University, Piotr Zieliński and Mike Bond, discovered a decimalization table attack in the PIN verification system of the IBM 3624, which was duplicated in most later hardware.


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