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...
Elisa Communications manages the database of public keys and the archive of certificates. The electronic ID card (the FINEID card) issued by the Finnish Population Register Centre (FPRC) - besides its traditional use as a photographic record and...
Managed by a 'trusted third party' known as a Certification Authority (CA), PKIs can issue, store, release, revoke and otherwise control public keys, providing a useful service for both the originators and recipients of encrypted or signed...
The company is researching ways users can authenticate each other, including looking at ring of trust models, where a certification authority (CA) establishes the identity of users. Skype plans to address the security concerns of some IT managers...
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.