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  2. Personal identification number - Wikipedia

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    Personal identification number. A personal identification number (PIN), PIN code, or sometimes redundantly a PIN number, is a numeric (sometimes alpha-numeric) passcode used in the process of authenticating a user accessing a system. The PIN has been the key to facilitating the private data exchange between different data-processing centers in ...

  3. Jefferson disk - Wikipedia

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    A disk cipher device of the Jefferson type from the 2nd quarter of the 19th century in the National Cryptologic Museum. The Jefferson disk, also called the Bazeries cylinder or wheel cypher, [1] was a cipher system commonly attributed to Thomas Jefferson that uses a set of wheels or disks, each with letters of the alphabet arranged around their edge in an order, which is different for each ...

  4. Kahoot! - Wikipedia

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    Kahoot! is a Norwegian online game-based learning platform. [3] It has learning games, also known as "kahoots", which are user-generated multiple-choice quizzes that can be accessed via a web browser or the Kahoot! app. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]

  5. Pinwheel (cryptography) - Wikipedia

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    Pinwheel (cryptography) In cryptography, a pinwheel was a device for producing a short pseudorandom sequence of bits (determined by the machine's initial settings), as a component in a cipher machine. A pinwheel consisted of a rotating wheel with a certain number of positions on its periphery. Each position had a "pin", "cam" or "lug" which ...

  6. ISO 9564 - Wikipedia

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    ISO 9564. ISO 9564 is an international standard for personal identification number (PIN) management and security in financial services. The PIN is used to verify the identity of a customer (the user of a bank card) within an electronic funds transfer system, and (typically) to authorize the transfer or withdrawal of funds.

  7. Use Face, Fingerprint or PIN to sign in to AOL

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    Use Face, Fingerprint or PIN to sign in to AOL - AOL Help. AOL APP. News / Email / Weather / Video. GET. Mail. Call live aol support at. 1-800-358-4860. Get live expert help with your AOL needs—from email and passwords, technical questions, mobile email and more.

  8. Fortuna (PRNG) - Wikipedia

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    Fortuna (PRNG) Fortuna is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CS-PRNG) devised by Bruce Schneier and Niels Ferguson and published in 2003. It is named after Fortuna, the Roman goddess of chance. FreeBSD uses Fortuna for /dev/random and /dev/urandom is symbolically linked to it since FreeBSD 11. [1]

  9. Generation of primes - Wikipedia

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    A prime sieve or prime number sieve is a fast type of algorithm for finding primes. There are many prime sieves. The simple sieve of Eratosthenes (250s BCE), the sieve of Sundaram (1934), the still faster but more complicated sieve of Atkin [1] (2003), and various wheel sieves [2] are most common.