Comments for Nic's Blog

Comment on System Restore Explorer by Nic

Nic — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:17:02 +0000

Thanks Josh, I’d love it to work on XP too, but Microsoft’s SRRemoveRestorePoint API just seems bugged on Windows XP.

Comment on System Restore Explorer by Josh

Josh — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:43:36 +0000

This would be an awesome tool to have if it only worked on XP, too bad it doesn’t. Thanks for sharing it anyways.

Comment on System Restore Explorer by Nic

Nic — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:41:25 +0000

Did you actually read the paragraph? It explains exactly why it does not support Windows XP and the fact that I added the error box deliberatly

Comment on System Restore Explorer by PassingThru

PassingThru — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:46:00 +0000

I get an error when running on Windows XP that Vista or higher is required. I mention this because it says it was tested on XP.

Thanks

Comment on EMV Card Browser by Ramesh Nair

Ramesh Nair — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:25:02 +0000

Figured out the issue.. The USB Card Reader driver default by windows update may no be suitable at some times, tried downloading the driver from the original provider’s website and it worked like charm.

Comment on EMV Card Browser by Ramesh Nair

Ramesh Nair — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:13:51 +0000

the issue im facing is that the softwae does not recognise the card… it basically hangs when i try to read a card.
Im running Windows Vista Business sp2, on .net framework 3.5 sp1, ACR30U, and a gemalto smart card.

Any advises or workaround?

Comment on EMV Card Browser by Nic

Nic — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:02:39 +0000

According to EMVCo Book3, Track 1 Discretionary Data is encoded in tag 0x9F1F, Track 2 Discretionary Data is encoded in tag 0x9F20 and Track 2 Equivalent Data is encoded in tag 0×57.

Comment on EMV Card Browser by john smith

john smith — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:18:34 +0000

i am studying how emv chip and pin cards work and i would like to know how you can encode the Track 1 2 3 from the magnetic stripe onto the emv chip
thank you

Comment on Firefly WHS by wlanguy

wlanguy — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:51:35 +0000

Hi Nic,

I always see an empty server and log page when using the plugin. The Library page is o.k.

Firefly works well, and all is working well when using the Config Util in the task bar (remotedesktop session).

Any hint, tip?

I’m using an German WHS.

Many thanks and best regards!

Comment on Read Chip & PIN / EMV Card by Nic

Nic — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:02:24 +0000

Hi Chris,

Interesting reading about the Kobil readers. I hadn’t seen that. First, I’d like to say good luck trying to read the PIN I think your going to have a hard time ahead of you. If my understanding is anywhere near correct, then when a user enters their PIN, it is sent to the chip, which then performs some sort of cypto hashing function on it, and compares with a hash stored on the chip. I don’t believe this information is directly available from the chip! If you were to take a look at the EMVCo. specs my app essentially performs the BuildCandidateList function of the EMV process (ignoring any terminal configuration and returning all AID’s it finds).

Let me know if your comment email is valid and I’ll hook you up with my .net source code.