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Key Management Interoperability: Achievements and Challenges
The Key Management Interoperability Protocol standard intends to provide interoperability across various key management environments and hence to...
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EU's CEF Building Blocks: eID, eSignature & eDelivery
The CEF building blocks of the digital service infrastructure, as defined under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), cover essential components like...
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Lessons from the SolarWinds Attack: Best Practices
Since the announcement of the SolarWinds supply chain attack, intensive analysis has been done by Crowdstrike, FireEye (with additional details),...
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Symmetric Key Creation & Keyshare Generators Explained
In this article, we look at the process of a keyshare generator and key derivation as described by the ANSI X9.24-1-2017 standard. This process is...
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BYOK for Google Cloud: Financial Institution Benefits
This article discusses the concerns surrounding key management for cloud environments and how Cryptomathic addresses them by bringing banking-grade...
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E-signatures vs Digital Signatures: Key Differences and Regulations
People often use the terms e-signature and digital signature interchangeably. However, they aren't the same thing. Everything from the processes that...
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Solving Common Mobile Banking Security Issues
An investigation conducted by "Which?", a consumer watchdog group based in the UK, found serious vulnerabilities in the security of banking security...
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PAdES Standards for Trust Service Providers
The term PAdES stands for PDF Advanced Electronic Signatures. It refers to a group of extensions and restrictions that are used with PDF and ISO...
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Mobile App Hardening: Root and Jailbreak Detection Techniques
Unlike other operating systems like Windows, Linux, or OSX, both Android and iOS operating systems are usually shipped with built-in user rights...