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Performing Buyer Authentication Transactions Using the SDK
Buyer Authentication Terminology
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2. If the cardholder is enrolled, then your program redirects the customer to the issuing bank’s
buyer authentication page. The customer submits their username and password. The
issuing bank authenticates the customers identity by returning a payer authentication
response value to your program.
3. Your program then validates the authentication response.
4. If the authentication data is valid, then your program submits a standard Payflow
authorization or sale transaction that includes the buyer authentication data.
NOTE: The Buyer Authentication Service supports only Sale and Authorization transaction
types.
Buyer Authentication Terminology
The following terms are used in this chapter:
TABLE 6.1 Buyer Authentication terminology
Term Definition
MPI The Merchant Plug-in software component that implements merchant's client
functionalities in 3-D Secure protocol. The 3-D Secure server at
https://buyerauth.com/DDDSecure/MerchantPlug-In
implements MPI's
specification as a payment gateway.
PAREQ The Payer Authentication Request message that you send to the issuing bank’s
buyer authentication page.
PARES Payer Authentication Response, digitally signed by the issuing bank.
CAVV Cardholder Authentication Verification Value. The value generated by card
issuing bank to prove that the cardholder has been authenticated with a
particular transaction.
XID Buyer authentication Transaction ID. Used only by Verified by Visa to identify a
unique buyer authentication transaction.
ECI E-Commerce Indicator. The ECI value indicates the level of security supported
by the merchant when the cardholder provided the payment card data for an
Internet purchase. When returned in a buyer authentication response, it is
determined by the issuing bank.
Authentication
Status
Key component in the 3-D Secure protocol. A server run by card issuer
performing functionalities of enrolling a card for 3-D Secure, verifying card
enrollment, and authenticating cardholder and issuing a digitally signed
payment authentication response (PARES).