BT has become the first organisation to offer a digital certification service in the UK with its Trustwise service. Digital certification ensures that transactions over the Internet are secure, BT claims.
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...
The encryption algorithm uses a key, which is a binary number that is typically from 40 to 128 bits in length. The greater the number of bits in the key, the longer it will take to break the code. The data is encrypted by combining the bits in the...
Secure Socket Layer, a system used to keep transactions over the internet protected and confidential using encryption and digital certificates. Secure Electronic Transaction, system used to keep financial transactions over the internet protected...
The lock icon is associated with SSL web security technology which involves encryption and security certificates. In that case the scam's designers used encrypted SSL conections to direct users to their site but fraudulent certificates to persuade...