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How to Deploy and Manage Cryptography in a Project the Right Way
With the ever increasing number of online services and electronic transactions, business owners are becoming ever more dependent on the use...
Key Management (4)
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Key Block Conversion: Techniques, Methods & Examples
Martin Rupp (guest): 15. July 2022
There are several types of key block formats used in different industries, especially the retail banking industry. The systems that use these key...
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ANSI X9.24-1-2017: Key Replacement, Destruction, and Archiving
Martin Rupp (guest): 10. May 2022
One aspect of key management is dealing with what happens when a symmetric cryptographic key is no longer needed. The section ‘Key Replacement,...
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Key Management Challenges in Financial Symmetric Cryptography Systems
This article addresses some of the challenges of symmetric cryptography as applied in banks, describing how it works and what are its unbeaten...
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ANSI X9.24-1-2017: A Guide to Key Loading Standards
Martin Rupp (guest): 31. March 2022
The ANSI X9.24-1-2017 standard defines the requirements for the loading of key components or shares, and the loading of cleartext keys. The loading...
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Managing Risks in Cryptographic Key Management
With the growing need for cryptography solutions to protect digital assets and communications, the ever-present security holes in modern computer...
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Payment & Banking Cryptography: Benefits of z/OS & Z Platform
This article looks at some reasons for popularity of the IBM mainframe platform in the banking sector and touches upon its limitation for...
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Meltdown & Spectre: What You Need to Know About Key Protection
A number of serious security vulnerabilities, collectively known under the names of “Meltdown” and “Spectre” [1][2], have recently been discovered in...