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Crypto Service Gateway: Enabling Crypto-Agility with CSG Policy Engine
Today's businesses rely heavily on cryptography to authenticate people and processes, secure communications, and safeguard critical data.
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EMV Payment Security - Acquirers
In the “four corner model”, acquirers are apparently the less active party as their role seems ‘only’ to forward the transaction flow originating...
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Digital vs Wet Signatures: The Impact of Forgery On House Buying
Mortgage fraud is a serious crime. Once executed and signed, a mortgage deed is a legally binding contract. The responsibility of trying to prove...
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E-Government Authentication & Signing: Centralized Solutions
Achieve Non-Repudiation of Origin (NRO) and Non-Repudiation of Emission (NRE)
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Classification of Cryptographic Keys
This article is meant to be an introduction to the different types of cryptographic keys that are used to protect digital applications in encryption...
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How EMV Payment Security Works for Issuers
An issuer is one of the corners in the ‘four corner’ model. An issuer is a financial organization (e.g. a bank) that produces payment cards and...
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Challenges in Key Management for EMV Personalization
The EMV personalization data processing in itself is not the topic of this article, we will instead focus on the cryptographic schemes involved in...
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Understanding Key Block Formats and Applications
A key block is a unique piece of cryptography that is used to protect cryptographic keys while they are being sent over networks that might not be...
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An Expert Introduction to z/OS & IBM Cryptographic Architecture
IBM’s mainframe computers have been a rock-steady part of banks’ security infrastructure for many years. Originating from the local data-center...