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Rob Stubbs: 15. January 2022
Part 2 – Accelerating Time-to-Market With the increase in e-commerce and electronic communications on the one hand and the growing challenges of...
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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,...
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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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Rob Stubbs: 22. October 2021
In this article, we will explore some of the reasons why HSMs can be difficult to use and look at a novel solution that helps to overcome these...
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A. M. Parker (guest): 19. October 2021
Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) are used in all card payment systems (as well as various other applications that require strong security) to protect...
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Thomas Pedersen: 14. October 2021
As part of the global drive for digital transformation, legally binding digital signatures are at the forefront of many businesses’ ambitions to...
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Martin Rupp (guest): 18. September 2021
This article briefly summarizes the symmetric cryptographic key utilization and storage requirements as described by the ANSI X9.24-1-2017 (part 1)...
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Ulrich Scholten (guest) & Stefan Hansen: 07. September 2021
The IBM mainframe series (“z-series”) has become a backbone for security, privacy and resilience in a large share of payment and banking related...
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Martin Rupp (guest): 19. August 2021
Thales Key Blocks are an essential cryptographic key wrapping format. In comparison to other key block formats, they are proprietary and only work...
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