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personal identification number (PIN)
(I) A character string used as a password to gain access to a
system resource. (See: authentication information.)
(C) Despite the words "identification" and "number", a PIN seldom
serves as a user identifier, and a PIN's characters are not
necessarily all numeric. A better name for this concept would have
been "personal authentication system string (PASS)".
(C) Retail banking applications commonly use 4-digit PINs.
FORTEZZA PC card's use up to 12 characters for user or SSO PINs.
