On 18 March Stripe presented the results of their 3-month experiment with Secure Payment Confirmation (SPC) to the Web Payments Working Group (minutes). The results were quite exciting: conversions went up by 8% and authentication sped up considerably. I share … Continue reading
In September 2020 the Web Payment Security Interest Group published “How EMVCo, FIDO, and W3C Technologies Relate” to describe the relationship between technologies such as EMV® 3-D Secure (hereafter “3DS”), Payment Request API, and FIDO / Web Authentication. In this … Continue reading
A payment handler is user software to make a payment. Payment handlers may be implemented as Web pages, native mobile apps, or even built into the browser. Since the launch of the Web Payments Working Group, we have had as … Continue reading
For several years, the Web Payments Working Group has discussed a range of ideas for layering security improvements on the user experience of Payment Request API. These have included: Encrypt response data to help reduce PCI DSS assessment burden. Digitally … Continue reading