Digital signatures may have hit the headlines for securing ecommerce transactions, but in more traditional security fields, they are already passé. Security Product Specialist at Network Associates UK, Martin Brown, disagreed: "We don't regard the...
Industry experts are today welcoming the move by the US House of Representatives to recognise digital signatures as legally binding. Mark Reeves, VP EMEA at RSA Security, said the importance of digital signatures should not be underestimated.
InterForum's white paper, 'Electronic Signatures - Signing up to the Digital Economy', can be found at http://www.interforum.org . There's no reason why the adoption of digital signatures shouldn't proceed from this day forward.
VeriSign has launched a range of trust and security services designed for wireless ecommerce. The technologies on offer include mini digital certificates and code embedded in mobile devices to allow them to send and receive encryption keys, digital...
American authorities are set to pass legislation that will make digital signatures legal across the country. The US House of Representatives and the Senate reached an agreement on the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act late...
Reports on Reuters suggest that both Verisign and Microsoft are now on the case. More importantly, Verisign claimed that there is no evidence that the certificates have been used and has cancelled them.