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The Netherlands Postal and Telecommunications Services (PTT) have developed a system that controles the entrance to their buildings by use of magnetic stripe cards. In this note some cryptographic aspects of the system are explained.
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Haemers, W. (1986). Access Control at the Netherlands Postal and Telecommunications Services. In: Williams, H.C. (eds) Advances in Cryptology — CRYPTO ’85 Proceedings. CRYPTO 1985. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 218. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39799-X_44
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