On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 04:05:32PM -0600, Jorge Amodio said:
Yes it has:
http://blog.securetrading.com/2010/12/mastercard-maestro-3-d-secure/
I've been processing cards all day for my wife's biz without any problems.
there are other payment processors out there for mastercard and visa, im sure in canada I dont bother clearing the charges I put through with a single master server in the US, they're probably also distributed for various reasons (fibre cuts speed of transaction, etc). When I hit the bigger grocery stores, the approval is almost instantaneous. Not sure what they're using for backhaul to where, but it aint DSL or a phone line. Taking out that kinda distributed architecture would require attacking the protocol with a self propagating attack (~Stuxnet), not the individual sites that do the processing. Im sure Mastercard has some skills on how to run an internal 'cloud'. /kc -- Ken Chase - ken@heavycomputing.ca - +1 416 897 6284 - Toronto CANADA Heavy Computing - Clued bandwidth, colocation and managed linux VPS @151 Front St. W.