The PIN is dynamically generated after concatenating the three elements. Two of which are guessable but the third is a pass phrase that should not be easily guessable. I agree. If they know all three elements, then the pin is irrelevant. The PIN is not really a PIN but a term I used for folks to quickly grasp what I needed to create. The checksum is merely a way for me to easily verify that the bits of data are the same ones used originally. I have a stateless machine. So, user A enters three bits-o-data. I create a checksum and send it to user B. User B still needs to enter the same three bits-o-data plus the checksum. Since I am stateless don't store anything on my system, I calculate the checksum and compare it to the entered PIN. If they are the same, I am relatively confident the three bits are the same. I can now proceed to the next task. If not, I simply say they are not the same so something they entered is different.

In reply to Re^2: Need a wait to generate a 4 digit "PIN" number by jaiello
in thread Need a wait to generate a 4 digit "PIN" number by jaiello

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