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Using the Nectar API for Production Systems.

September 17, 2021February 7, 2022 reayn3Uncategorized1 Comment on Using the Nectar API for Production Systems.

Prerequisites 35 minutes A valid STS Configuration Linux terminal to run openssl commands Introduction In the last post, we had an introduction to the newly released Nectar API and got a demonstration walk through on how one can use to…

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Introduction to the Nectar API

July 21, 2021September 17, 2021 reayn3Uncategorized

Please use this link to access the more recommended way to use the Nectar API to generate tokens for production systems https://nectar.software/blog/?p=93 Nectar API is a cloud-based, REST API that allows utilities and service providers to generate STS (IEC 62055-41:2018)…

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A deep dive into Decoder Key Generation – DKGA01 – Part 4.1

January 30, 2020June 25, 2020 reayn3Uncategorized8 Comments on A deep dive into Decoder Key Generation – DKGA01 – Part 4.1

In this fourth series of these blog posts, we shall begin to review the specific algorithms used in the Decoder Key Generation process and look specifically at DKGA01. As mentioned in the previous blog post, the decoder key generation is…

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The first part of generating an STS token, the Decoder Key Generation – Part 3

January 25, 2020June 25, 2020 reayn3Uncategorized2 Comments on The first part of generating an STS token, the Decoder Key Generation – Part 3

In this third series of this blog post, we get into the technical details on generating STS certified tokens. We will begin to specifically look at the first of the two processes used in token generation known as the decoder…

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An introduction into the Technical Implementation of the STS Standard – Part 2

December 12, 2019June 25, 2020 reayn3Uncategorized9 Comments on An introduction into the Technical Implementation of the STS Standard – Part 2

The STS Standard is the most popular prepayment standard in the world with more that 400 million homesteads in 86 countries using the specification. On our first series of this blog posts, we gave an introduction into the standard and…

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Introduction to the STS standard – Part 1

December 4, 2019June 25, 2020 reayn3Uncategorized3 Comments on Introduction to the STS standard – Part 1

Welcome to the first part of this series where over a number of blog postings, we will discuss the STS standard, its relevance in the prepayment ecosystem and how it actually works to generate prepaid tokens. What is prepayment? Quite…

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