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by Nursie 1150 days ago
PCI-PTS is another one we were concerned with as a terminal vendors, which involved a bunch of stuff around tamper-proofing and tamper-evidence, as well as vetting the cryptographic algorithms in use, some level of source code security evaluation etc. Complicated old business.

I was very proud when my security library, including implementations of all sorts of ANSI X.9 standards, derived-unique-keys-per-transaction, a keystore that was destroyed on tamper, secure program code update mechanisms etc etc passed certification, on a device with 128k of SRAM and 256k of program memory.

Shame it never made it to market. Stupid unicorn company taking on tens of millions in debt and then exploding... still, I got a few trips to China out of it.