← Payment Systems: Magstripe, Tokenization, NFC and EMV
Level 1 · Foundations75 min
Magnetic stripe data
Track encoding and the security thinking of the era — then MagSpoof, part by part, and the unsigned field on the stripe that tells a terminal to prefer the chip.
Enrolment required
Module 1 of this course is free to read. The rest needs an enrolment — and so does nothing else on this site: the workbench, the APDU decoder and the whole capture corpus stay open to everyone, signed in or not.
What this module covers
- 01Two tracks that matter
- 02The service code is the whole game
- 03How the bits get onto the stripe
- 04MagSpoof, and what it costs to be a card
- 05The circuit, and why each part is there
- 06What it does not do, which he says first
- 07The finding that outlived the device
- 08Why the stripe cannot be fixed