PA-DSS eliminates the use of non-secure payment applications, such as full magnetic stripe, CVV2 and PIN data, and ensures payment applications support compliance with the PCI DSS.
Therefore, E3 End-to-End Encryption MSR Wedge is set to prevent plaintext data from being available to the payment application by encrypting sensitive payment card data at the moment of swipe. No other payment systems can be supported and merchants cannot possess nor have access to decryption keys in their retail or corporate environments. Firstly launched in November 2010, Heartland’s E3 wedge offers security options to merchants using computer-based POS systems and addresses data breaches in the retail and hospitality industries.
Coalfire has also concluded that E3 wedge’s use of Format Preserving Encryption (FPE) meets encryption and standards for cryptographic algorithms and key strength and meets industry standards and VISA practice guidance.
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