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Credit Card
SDA (Static Data Authentication), DDA (Dynamic Data Authentication), and CDA (Combined Dynamic Data Authentication) are offline data authentication methods used in chip cards. Learn how each one validates the card and the transaction.
EMV
DAC is the abbreviation for Data Authentication Code. It is a piece of data assigned by the issuer and held by the terminal during the Signed Static Application Data verification process.
Credit Card
The Application Interchange Profile indicates the application functions supported by the card. The AIP values and their descriptions are given below. Where is the AIP found? The AIP is a 2-byte piece of data stored on the card, carried under EMV tag 82.
Online & Authorization
These are codes that communicate the issuer's conditions for approving a transaction online (IAC-Online), for declining it (IAC-Denial), or for declining it when the terminal cannot go online (IAC-Default).
Online & Authorization
In EMV, data is stored in Tag-Length-Value (TLV) format, and it is carried between the card, the POS terminal, and the authorization system in this same format. This post lists every EMV Tag, its type, and its description.
ISO 8583
Currency information for card transactions is sent in fields F49, F50 and F51. The ISO currency values that can be sent in field F49, which carries the original currency value, are listed below.
Merchant & POS
Terminal Verification Results (TVR): a sequence of bits produced when a terminal reads an EMV card, based on logical checks such as an expired card. This data object is used to decide whether a payment transaction should be accepted online, declined, or allowed to proceed.