A pragmatic approach to temporary payment card numbers
by David J. Boyd
International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics (IJESDF), Vol. 2, No. 3, 2009

Abstract: With the push towards electronic payments that use a smart card and authenticate the cardholder by his or her personal identification number, much fraud has switched to the residual payment methods that just rely on knowing the card number: card-not-present transactions. There are various countermeasures; notably some issuers allocate temporary card numbers (TCNs). The snag is that this is an online solution that requires the cardholder to be identified and authenticated over a separate and direct link between the cardholder and card issuer each time a number is allocated. Some off-line mechanisms have been proposed but those TCNs do not act as the cardholder's identifier. This paper examines a sample of online and off-line TCN mechanisms and then proposes an off-line mechanism that gives a comparable service to the online mechanisms. The cardholder's privacy is protected whilst still allowing proof of payment.

Online publication date: Tue, 28-Jul-2009

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