Triple DES Dare You


Triple DES Dare You | ATM Marketplace News

by Ann All, editor • 13 October 2003

First there was Y2K, the millennium bug that, despite all of the hype, was resolved with surprisingly little fuss in the ATM world.

Then came the federal government’s proposed changes to the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), a more vexing concern that will require the ATM industry to make its machines more accessible for all users, chiefly by adding the ability to make them talk.
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OFX develops standards for safer aggregation


Finextra: OFX develops standards for safer aggregation

The OFX Consortium is seeking comment on a new approach to financial account aggregation that would remove the need for sensitive financial information, such as passwords, to be stored on aggregators’ systems.

The Consortium, which is typically involved in the development of standards for downloading bank data to popular personal finance programs such as Intuit’s Quicken and Microsoft Money, is working to standardise the way financial transactions are transmitted over the Internet.
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