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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 Need X9.24/TR-31 Key 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.
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Key Utilization and Storage in ANSI X9.24-1-2017
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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Thales Key Blocks and payShield HSMs: How They Work
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...