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VISA Platform Connect: Specifications and Conditions for Resellers/Partners

Introduction to REST
- Secure Communication Requirements
- REST Set-Up Workflow

Signing Up for a Sandbox Account

Obtaining a PKCS12 Certificate
- Creating a PKCS12 File
- Testing the Shared Secret Key Pair
- Extracting the Private Key from the PKCS12 Certificate

Obtaining a Shared Secret Key Pair
- Creating a Shared Secret Key Pair
- Testing the Shared Secret Key Pair

Constructing Messages Using JSON Web Tokens
- Elements of a JSON Web Token Message
- Generating a Hash of the Message Body
- Generating a Hash of the Claim Set
- Generating a Hash of the Token Header
- Generating a Token Signature
- Generating a JSON Web Token

Constructing Messages Using HTTP Signature Security
- Elements of an HTTP Message
- Generating a Hash of the Message Body
- Generating the Signature Hash
- Updating Header Fields

Enabling Message-Level Encryption
- Message-Level Encryption Using JSON Web Tokens
- Message-Level Encryption Using HTTP Signature Authentication

Going Live
- Creating a Merchant ID
- Activating your Merchant ID

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REST API

Obtaining a PKCS12 Certificate

A PKCS12 certificate and its private key are used with JSON Web Token message security.