Electronics giant, GEC, has acquired a 15 per cent stake in digital certificate software company, Xcert International, for £9.4m. GEC will retain options to acquire the majority of the shares in the future.
A plan to bring digital certificates to the mainframe this week won the support of leading PKI software vendors. Baltimore, CyberTrust, Entrust, Verisign and Xcert announced at the RSA Conference 2000 that they would make their software...
Operators can then begin to issue the certificates themselves. The mobile phone can function as a smartcard reader and the SIM, which contains the user's digital certificate, can act as an authentication token.
The deal will see HyperTrust using nCipher's encryption hardware to store its customers' private keys as well as digital certificates. It allows HyperTrust to host customers' secure email, certificate validation and time stamping which utilise the...
However, security experts said that while traffic between the Egg site and the user may have been encrypted, digital certificates are an integral part of securing a website that cannot be ignored. Egg told silicon.com that the problem was due to an...
The flaw affects how more than a dozen Microsoft products, including programs for Windows and the Mac, handle digital certificates, which are used to certify the authenticity of a website or of software code.