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search  INFORMATION SECURITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF THE LARGEST
BARRIERS to e-commerce. Those of us who spend most of our waking
moments thinking of new and different ways to secure these
systems and applications know it starts with the data. After
all, it’s information that we are trying to protect.  One of the
primary challenges in e-commerce security is coming up with
practical ways to secure payment transaction data. This term
means a lot of different things to a lot of different
applications, but for the purpose of this writing, let’s focus
on credit card data such as account numbers, security and CV2
codes, PIN numbers, magnetic stripe data, and expiration and
issue dates. We will also include extra data we deem necessary
to make this process more secure, such as to authenticate or
authorize a transaction.  Let’s look at the possible points of
failure for credit card information.