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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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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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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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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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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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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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A number of serious security vulnerabilities, collectively known under the names of “Meltdown” and “Spectre” [1][2], have recently been discovered in...
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Martin Rupp (guest): 26. November 2021
The PCI Council requires most actors of payment networks to implement ANSI X9.24/TR-31-compliant key blocks to wrap and securely transmit, transfer,...
