Uncoordinated Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) applications used by corporations to secure Internet communications could hinder their security systems rather than support them, according to security vendor Entegrity Solutions.
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...
The push towards B2B ecommerce is fueling adoption of PKI as a business-enablement infrastructure tool for distributed authentication, authorisation, encryption and administration," he said in a statement.
But if you listen to the experts one answer to the problem is already out there in the form of public key infrastructure (PKI), a technology which allows encrypted data to be sent across the internet, to be read only by its intended recipient(s).
He told silicon.com: "[PKI] interoperation isn't prevented by the fact that certain types of software can't talk to each other. Backhouse is leading a Department of Trade and Industry-funded project designed to solve the same problem, but the...
Andrew Philips, senior analyst at Gartner-Dataquest and author of a report on the smartcard market published this week, claimed PKI companies have been playing too hard to get. It is not a surprising move from Verisign as IT directors are fed up...
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