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ANSI X9.F.1

Cryptographic Standards


What is ANSI X9.F.1?

X9 is an ANSI-approved organization that creates standards for the financial services industry, which includes banks and credit card companies. Within X9, the X9F subcommittee deals with data and information security issues. X9F has five working groups:

X9F1 – Cryptographic Tools
X9F3 – Protocols
X9F4 – Cryptographic Applications
X9F5 – Digital Signature and Certificate Policy
X9F6 – Cardholder Authentication and ICC’s


ANSI X9.F.1 Requirements


Why X9 standards?


Symmetric Key

Public Key Cryptography:

Digital Signatures

Key Establishment

Key Management Protocols:

Retail Key Management:

Certificates

Conformance Testing

Other:



  1. http://x9.org/
  2. http://csrc.nist.gov/nissc/1997/proceedings/761slides.pdf
  3. http://xml.coverpages.org/keyManagement.html#ansi-X9
  4. https://www.certicom.com/content/certicom/en/code-and-cipher/development-of-core-ecc-standards-by-ansi.html