Today the European Payment Council (EPC) issued its yearly update of the Guidelines on cryptographic algorithms usage and key management which provides guidance to the European payments industry in the field of cryptographic algorithms, security protocols, confidentiality and integrity protection and related key management practices.
The guidelines are aimed at payment service providers - specifically security officers, risk managers, system engineers and system designers. In producing these guidelines, the EPC aims to provide a reference basis to support payment service providers. However, it needs to be recognised that cryptology research and development are constantly evolving. Therefore, the EPC annually reviews and updates the document to reflect the state of the art considering major new developments and to keep it aligned with the documents referenced.
Read more about these updates and download the latest guidelines.
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