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Cardholder, Merchant, Issuer & Acquirer - The Four Corners Model for Payment Security and Key Management

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The Four Corners Model for Card Payment Security and Key Management

The “Four Corners” model, also called the “Four Party Scheme”, is utilized in almost all standard card payment systems across the globe. Here, we...

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EMV Personalization cryptographic requirements 

EMV Personalization is a process used to get card data into cards, mobile phones, and wearables. The process includes a variety of complicated...

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Great white shark gliding lazily beneath the ocean, symbolising malware threats to mobile banking apps

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Malware Protection for Mobile Banking Apps: What You Need to Know

To bank safely online, you need additional mobile app security mechanisms that go beyond standard OS security features. In this article, we take an...

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Mobile Banking Application Protection: Challenges and Techniques

As the use of mobile phones for mobile banking and payment applications increases, so too do the security threats. Most smartphones use only two...

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TR-34 Key Blocks for the TR-34 Exchange Protocol: Basic Principles

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TR-34 Key Blocks for the TR-34 Exchange Protocol: Basic Principles

Among all the various key block formats, the TR-34 format is undoubtedly one of the most sophisticated. The TR-34 norm is an implementation of the...

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PCI PIN Requirements for Key Blocks in the Payment Card Industry - FAQs

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Key blocks and PCI PIN requirements: FAQs

This article proposes a few answers to a series of frequently asked questions (FAQs) about key blocks and their use with PCI.

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EMV Payment Security - Acquirers

In the “four corner model”, acquirers are apparently the less active party as their role seems ‘only’ to forward the transaction flow originating...

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EMV Payment Security - Issuers

An issuer is one of the corners in the ‘four corner’ model. An issuer is a financial organization (e.g. a bank) that produces payment cards and...

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A Brief Overview of the Challenges Involved in Key Management for EMV Personalization : The Main Actors of EMV Personalization

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Key Management Challenges for EMV Personalization

The EMV personalization data processing in itself is not the topic of this article, we will instead focus on the cryptographic schemes involved in...

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