API Overview

Creating and Using Security Keys User Guide
- Recent Revisions to This Document
- VISA Platform Connect: Specifications and Conditions for Resellers/Partners

Introduction to Creating and Using Security Keys

Create a Security Key
- Message-Level Encryption Keys
  - Creating a Message-Level Encryption Key
- PGP Keys
  - Creating PGP Keys
  - Adding PGP Keys to Your Account
  - Granting User Permissions
- REST API Key with a P12 File
  - Create a P12 File
- REST API Key with a Shared Secret Key
  - Create a Shared Secret Key Pair
- Secure Acceptance Keys
  - Creating a Secure Acceptance Key
- Simple Order API Keys
  - Creating a Simple Order API Key
- SOAP Toolkit Keys
  - Creating a SOAP Toolkit Key

Manage a Security Key
- Deactivate a Key
- Delete a Key
- Search for Keys Using Filters

Meta Key Creation and Management
- Create a Meta Key as a Portfolio User
- Create a Meta Key as a Merchant Account User
- Assign a Meta Key to All Merchants
- Assign a Meta Key to Select Merchants
- Remove a Meta Key from all Merchants
- Remove a Meta Key from Select Merchants
- Convert a Meta Key or Non-Meta Key
- Delete a Meta Key
- Regenerate a Meta Key

Meta Keys in API Requests
- REST API Payment Request with a Meta Key
- Simple Order API Payment Request Using a Meta Key
- SOAP Payment Request Using a Meta Key
- SCMP API Payment Request using a Meta Key

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PGP Keys

Visa Acceptance Solutions uses Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption for Account Updater response files and Notice of Change (NOC) reports.

A PGP public/private key pair enables you to use encryption to protect payment data. You exchange the public part of this key pair with Visa Acceptance Solutions, which uses the public key to encrypt response files or NOC reports. You use the private part of the key pair to decrypt the response files or NOC reports. Only the private key can decrypt files that are encrypted with the public key.

Key information:

PGP keys expire after 3 years.

Security keys can be used to make any request, including payments. Treat your security keys as you would any secure password.

You must use separate keys for the test and production environments.

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