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Product Release Cycle
I’ll just say it; I’m proud of our release cycle for OLS.Switch. It has been my experience (YMMV) both first hand running an authorization host/switch (issuing and acquiring) and as an IT Security...
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New Blog : Prepaid Enterprise
Andy and I recently persuaded our new colleague (and resident expert on Issuing, among many other thing) : Randy San Nicolas to start a blog. Well he did and he wrote his first post. Check it out at...
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Sending Alerts to the SysLog
On my jPOS page I added a link to a screencast that I did that shows the basic configuration and usage of the jPOS SysLogListener. If you are not familiar with syslog, it is the logging daemon for Unix...
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OLS – Company Profile in The Green Sheet
In Issue 081201 of The Green Sheet There is a Company Profile of OLS (On-Line Strategies, Inc) Hugh Bursi, Director of Marketing of OLS worked with the Green Sheet to put this company profile together....
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Card Readers in Vending Machines
Years ago I assisted a company that developed magstripe readers that would operate in vending machines, copiers, laundry machines for a project related to college campus cards. My part was to assist...
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When End-to-End Encryption is really not End-to-End.
I’m reading a lot about solutions that implement end-to-end encryption, where account numbers and track data is encrypted and can utilize a Hardware Security Module (HSM) and DUKPT or other encryption...
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Operations Considerations Batch Files and Extract and Import jobs
I’ve been working some batch file based jobs for a project here for OLS. There are two sides of this; sending "clearing" files of transactions in a defined format to third party which I will call the...
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Encryption options from the POS/Payment Device/Terminal
There are a few different ways of implementing "encryption" from the POS/Payment Device/Terminal, I though I’d look at a few in a short post: 1) Tunneling – using existing applications and their...
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You don’t know until you know (or go into Production)
Over the last six months we have been busy building and implementing an OLS.Switch Issuer Implementation with one of our customers and their banking and payment processing partners. It has been a...
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10,000 TPS per second
I ran across Kiplinger’s article and picture of “The Credit or Debit Debate Visualized” It is a very nice picture of both the usage of Credit and Debit Cards over time, as well as a nice list of pros...
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