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Security
It is an organization aimed at developing, managing, teaching, and raising awareness of security standards in the Card Payments Industry. The PCI Security Standards Council is also an open global forum for data security standards.
Online & Authorization
TLV is a data storage method used to speed up the parsing of data. For example, reading data from a card's chip at a POS and carrying it through authorization uses the TLV structure.
Credit Card
CVK (Card Verification Key) is the key information used to generate and verify CVV/CVC values, confirming their validity. It is kept as a pair of keys, CVK A and CVK B, encrypted under TMK, ZMK or LMK.
Credit Card
PVK (Pin Verification Key) is a key held on the HSM, used in PIN generation and verification, and therefore to confirm that a PIN is correct. On a shared network it is encrypted under TMK or ZMK; on a local network it is encrypted under one of the LMK pairs.
ATM
The Integrated Motorized Card Reader Writer is a hybrid motorized card reader/writer used in some ATM models, self-service terminals, self-service charging machines, vending machines, and media inquiry machines, supporting magnetic stripe, RFID, and IC card reading.
HSM & Security
HSM, short for Hardware Security Module, is specialized security hardware built to store sensitive cryptographic keys in a physical environment and to perform cryptographic operations in the most secure way.
Merchant & POS
PIN Transaction Security (PTS) verifies that card data and PIN information are used for a payment transaction. It is a set of modular evaluation requirements managed by the PCI Security Standards Council for PIN-accepting terminals.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
The Law defines e-money as monetary value issued in exchange for funds accepted by the issuer, stored electronically, used for payment transactions and accepted as a payment instrument by persons other than the issuer. This post explains e-money institutions and the services they may provide.
Security
The number of companies offering cloud computing and storage has grown sharply in recent years. AWS, founded in 2006, is the world's largest cloud computing and storage provider, ahead of Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and IBM.
HSM & Security
TAK stands for Terminal Authentication Key. It is the data encryption key used to generate and verify a Message Authentication Code (MAC) for data communication between a terminal and the acquirer within a local network.