The UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Home Office today released a joint consultation paper on electronic commerce, which allows companies to set up unlicensed services to encrypt and digitally sign data without storing their keys with...
The security system, ChamberSign, will offer electronic certificates to authenticate the identity of e-traders by enabling them to digitally sign all commercial information transmitted over the Web. The British Chambers of Commerce and the Royal...
The system will allow the MoD to authenticate online traders through digital certificates, and will allow users to digitally sign trading documents. The 'Defence Electronic Commerce System' (DECS) - announced by the MoD last month - will allow the...
Despite these problems, Microsoft is bidding to become a major player through its Passport initiative, a user identification and sign-on service that includes an electronic wallet. One point in Amazon's favour, however, is that while new...
Accelerator for Financial Services enables electronic messaging between financial institutions, with more than 90 standard online forms for payments, foreign exchange, securities trading and reporting.
Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language that forms a basic part of the operation of the company's vast computing cluster. The tool, which has been in use for several years at...