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Key Management for PCI and Payment automation

We're a bootstrapped startup looking to achieve PCI compliance, we've almost nailed all requirements but I recently came across this blog post which totally derails our plans and efforts : ...
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Key management scheme in PHP that is compliant with NIST SP 800-57

We're working on achieving SAQ-D PCI compliance and along the way we're discovering new things each day. Today: Key Management I wonder if there're any open-source or commercial PHP solutions ...
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Help understanding PCI-DSS when using password based encryption from automatically generated keys

I've inherited the task of self-auditing an e-commerce system for compliance with the PCI-DSS. We are storing the PAN in our database in encrypted form using 256 bit AES algorithm to do the ...
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PCI Compliant Key Management solutions that don't cost a fortune

We are relatively small software company who has a requirement to store PAN's for our customers. Hosted payment solutions just don't fit our product requirements. We literally have 3 lines of ...
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Hybrid key management doing it wrong?

I'm currently working on a project that needs be as secure as possible key-management. My experience with encryption, decryption and key-management are none whatsoever so i did some research on the ...
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Where do I securely store the key for a system where the source is visible?

I have a customer with an Access database (ugh!) in which credit cards are stored in plaintext (yikes!), so amongst other changes I'm doing in the app, I'm applying some encryption in there. I've ...
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PCI Encryption Key Management

(Full disclosure: I'm already an active participant here and at StackOverflow, but for reasons that should hopefully be obvious, I'm choosing to ask this particular question anonymously). I currently ...