The company has built up expertise in the digital certification field and is already issuing over 10 per cent of its certificates in the UK. It has partnered with Globalsign, an Internet Certification Authority that originated out of the Belgian...
Gemplus, the payment systems equipment maker, pledged its support for the Windows Card yesterday and ID2, the certification authority developer, gave Microsoft its backing on Monday. The Microsoft-ICL alliance, called SmartCity, plans to start work...
In an administrative role, the FPRC is responsible for providing the government with certificate services and creating and maintaining the infrastructure required for the system. The electronic ID card (the FINEID card) issued by the Finnish...
What has never quite caught the imagination of the wider world is the implementation of digital certificates for more general use. Software downloads, typically for browser plug-ins such as Macromedia Flash, are digitally signed and you can view...
Once user identity has been established, the user is added to the ring of trust by being issued with a certificate from the CA. The company is researching ways users can authenticate each other, including looking at ring of trust models, where a...
This is a new type of security certificate being sold by the same companies that sell Secure Socket Layer, or SSL, certificates which allow traffic to be encrypted and are indicated by a yellow padlock in web browsers.