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  2. Payment card number - Wikipedia

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    Payment card numbers are composed of 8 to 19 digits, [1] The leading six or eight digits are the issuer identification number (IIN) sometimes referred to as the bank identification number (BIN). [2]: 33 [3] The remaining numbers, except the last digit, are the individual account identification number. The last digit is the Luhn check digit.

  3. What do the numbers on your credit card mean? - AOL

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    Next five digits: Issuer Identification Number (IIN) ... (BIN). Remaining credit card numbers; Cardholder identification. The seventh to the 15th digit (or 14th for American Express) form a unique ...

  4. ISO/IEC 7812 - Wikipedia

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    It specifies "a numbering system for the identification of the card issuers, the format of the issuer identification number (IIN) and the primary account number (PAN)", [1] and procedures for registering IINs. [2] It was first published in 1989. ISO/IEC 7812 has two parts: Part 1: Numbering system; Part 2: Application and registration procedures

  5. Luhn algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, systems that pad to a specific number of digits (by converting 1234 to 0001234 for instance) can perform Luhn validation before or after the padding and achieve the same result. The algorithm appeared in a United States Patent [ 1 ] for a simple, hand-held, mechanical device for computing the checksum.

  6. Credit card - Wikipedia

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    Credit cards have a printed [13] or embossed bank card number complying with the ISO/IEC 7812 numbering standard. The card number's prefix, called the Bank Identification Number (known in the industry as a BIN [14]), is the sequence of

  7. What Do Credit Card Numbers Mean? - AOL

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    A credit card number is the set of digits printed on either the front or back of a physical credit card. Credit card numbers are often 16 digits, but they can be as long as 19 digits or as short ...

  8. Tokenization (data security) - Wikipedia

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    In the case of payment card data, a token might be the same length as a Primary Account Number (bank card number) and contain elements of the original data such as the last four digits of the card number. When a payment card authorization request is made to verify the legitimacy of a transaction, a token might be returned to the merchant ...

  9. Card security code - Wikipedia

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    There are several types of security codes and PVV (all generated from DES key in the bank in HSM modules using PAN, expiration date and service code): . The first code, 3 numbers, called CVC1 or CVV1, is encoded on track one and two of the magnetic stripe of the card and used for card present transactions, with signature (second track also contains pin verification value, PVV, but now it is ...