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About This Guide

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

Registering for a Sandbox Account

Creating a P12 Certificate
- Creating a P12 Certificate
- Testing the Shared Secret Key Pair
- Extracting the Private Key from the PKCS12 Certificate

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

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

Constructing Messages Using HTTP Signature Security
- Generating a Hash of the Message Body
- Generate 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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Constructing Messages Using JSON Web Tokens

Follow these steps to construct messages using JWTs:

Create a P12 Certificate.

Creating a P12 Certificate

Extract the Private Key from the P12 Certificate.

Extracting the Private Key from the PKCS12 Certificate

Generate a hash of the message body.

Generate a Hash of the Message Body

Populate the Header Values.

Generate Hash of the "claim set."

Generate a Hash of the Claim Set

Generate a Hash of the "token header."

Generate a Hash of the Token Header

Generate a Token Signature hash.

Generate a Token Signature

Populate the

signature

header field.

Updating Header Fields