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CAdES Standards for Trust Service Providers Explained
The term CAdES stands for CMS Advanced Electronic Signatures. The Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) provides a framework for digitally signed...
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Key Terms Around Digital Signatures: A Guide
The technology and terms that are involved with digital signing can be confusing. This article attempts to clarify meaning and implications of the...
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What Does XAdES Mean? The Full Scope and Requirements
EIDAS is the European Regulation for the electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions. It repeals Directive 1999/93/EC....
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Digital Signature Standards & Compliance - A Global View
This article introduces the most relevant digital signature standards for global players, governments and banks.
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Migrating from Magnetic Stripes to EMV: Key Considerations
Migrating from magnetic stripes to EMV based smart cards is a challenging endeavour for banks and their IT teams. Even for small banks, necessary...
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Understanding: Web Applications with Cryptographic Zones
A cryptographic zone exists between two points, where a symmetric key or asymmetric public keys are shared in order to encrypt sensitive information....
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Reducing Card Fraud with EMV Chip Technology
This article gives an insight into the EMV chip technology, which is being rolled out on a world-wide scale to increase the level of fraud protection...
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Assignment & Configuration of Roles in a Crypto Key Management System
This article introduces and describes the relevant roles needed to successfully manage a key management system in an organisation.
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How to define appropriate Crypto-periods for Cryptographic keys
The period of time between the key activation and key deactivation is called the crypto period of the key. The crypto period is defined by factors...