Category: PCI PIN
PCI SSC PIN Listing Program: Everything you need to know
In May 2025, the PCI SSC announced the publication of a list of entities that meet the PCI PIN standard. This list – unlike the previous lists which were managed by the payment brands themselves, ...
Reminder PCI PIN: Change the key upload process as of January 1, 2024
According to the PCI PTS PIN Security Requirements − Technical FAQs for use with Version 3, as of January 1, 2024, the process of loading keys in...
Visa reports that its PIN security programme ended on 1 October 2023
In a decision that has taken the entire payment media ecosystem by surprise, Visa announced that its Visa PIN Security Program ended on October 1, 2023. In a brief statement...
What is PCI PIN?
In this new article in the What is it? series, a brief introduction will be made to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) PIN Security (PCI PIN) standard, focused on the protection of the personal identification number (PIN) in face-to-face transactions. Introduction The standard...
The Ultimate Guide to Cryptographic Key Blocks
With the entry into force of the PCI PIN v2.0 standard in 2014, all encrypted symmetric keys (cryptograms) must be handled in structures called key blocks, which allow to protect in a standardized way the integrity of said cryptographic keys.
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