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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...
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Why Key Management Systems Require X9.24/TR-31 Blocks
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,...
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IBM z15 Mainframe: Key Management & Resilience
Banks continue to feel the profound transformational effects that digital technologies have on their business. This can be seen in the creation and...
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Crypto-Abstraction Layer: What You Need to Know
Chris Allen: 23. October 2021
A crypto-abstraction layer (CAL) is, in its most general sense, an application programming interface (API) - also known as a library- that hides...
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FAQs on Cryptographic Key Blocks and Their Use
Martin Rupp (guest): 21. October 2021
This article proposes answers to a series of frequently asked questions (FAQs) about key blocks.