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Module 18 of 22 · Operator · 60 min

SoftPOS and Tap to Phone

Commercial phones as contactless terminals: where PCI CPoC and MPoC sit, attestation, and what breaks when the terminal is an app on untrusted hardware.

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What this module covers

  1. 01Three things get called the same thing
  2. 02What a certified terminal was providing
  3. 03What the certification covered
  4. 04PCI DSS already says the quiet part
  5. 05What moves into software
  6. 06The Terminal Transaction Qualifiers are now written by an app
  7. 07The limits live in a file
  8. 08CDCVM, from the other side of the counter
  9. 09PIN on glass, and the boundary of what is known
  10. 10Attestation, and what it can and cannot say
  11. 11The merchant phone was already in the trust path
  12. 12One shape, four times
  13. 13Where the trust used to be, and where it went
  14. 14The same idea, already tested in the field
  15. 15How to test one
  16. 16Why this direction is not reversing