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Open encryption to combat spam and phishing
News These standards make it possible for parties who do not know one another or who are widely distributed to communicate securely by adopting a chain of trust. Oasis IDtrust members will identify PKI trust assurance and standardisation policies, and...
[May 25, 2007, 16:21]
Issues of Trust in Digital Signature Certificates
White Papers Trust is an increasingly important concept on the Internet, especially for Electronic Commerce. There are a number of trust-models on the Internet providing authentication which attempt to achieve the maximum of trust with minimum of risks.
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Locality Driven Key Management Architecture for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
White Papers Although this is already mature in the Internet applications, providing public key based authentication is still very challenging in mobile ad-hoc networks because the entire network is world-accessible via wireless channel, the environment is...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
PGP Personal Security 7.03 review
Reviews I trust your key, not because I have checked it out, but because someone I trust has said your key is trustworthy. Then I sign the key to verify that I trust that key. On a server, I have to trust that the server is completely secure and that the...
[July 13, 2001, 0:00]
Baltimore's death spells gloom for PKI
News Part of the problem with PKI in a public environment, said Titterington, is one of trust. Who do you trust to issue the certificates? If 1 percent of certificates were forgeries and 99 percent genuine, the trust of that 99 percent of certificates...
[November 28, 2003, 12:45]
Skype to address identification concerns
News 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. Once user identity has been established, the user is added to the...
[June 21, 2006, 16:25]
iPhones could be used for citizen ID
News Matthewman said not only do citizens need to be able to trust the government website they are visiting, but the government needs a reliable way of establishing the identity of the person when online. Creating a single sign-on is quite...
[October 15, 2009, 14:24]
Key Public Technologies: Organizations Must Determine Whether They Need PKI or PKO Architecture
White Papers As organizations plan large-scale deployment technologies, such as identity management, identity federation, Web services and digital rights management, they will investigate the possible roles public key infrastructures and public key operations...
[October 5, 2009, 0:00]
The Unisys Trusted Enterprise: United States
White Papers Consumers no longer trust businesses and governments to safeguard personal data, protect borders or secure key operations, according to the independently conducted Unisys Trusted Enterprise research. And in many cases these organizations (or at...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Deploying Authenticode With Cryptographic Hardware for Secure Software Publishing
White Papers This paper describes the role of Microsoft Authenticode code-signing and time-stamping in establishing user trust in code that is published online. It provides an overview of the Authenticode code-signing and time-stamping process and examines the...
[October 6, 2009, 0:00]
OpenPGP Key Exchange and Migration
White Papers Business exchange processes must define the mechanism for establishing trust among partners. Using cryptography as the foundation for trust, the OpenPGP support on z/OS and its use of the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) within IBM's Java 5 SDK...
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
European ID card data is not encrypted
News However, if personal data on electronic cards is encrypted, it might have an effect on public trust in the cards, Clayton suggested. Access control mechanisms include PIN access (where the user authenticates their identity using a personal...
[February 6, 2009, 14:32]
Privacy watchdog fears government super-database
News Responding to the policy review, the Information Commissioner's Office warned that relaxing these rules could cause excessive surveillance and data-sharing, leading to loss of public trust and confidence in the government.
[January 15, 2007, 16:15]
Privacy tsar: Data protection should be 'way of life'
News He said: "People will not trust government if there is excessive secrecy. People must trust the government. Breaking the government's 'culture of secrecy' while protecting the privacy of UK citizens is one of the key challenges facing the new...
[January 8, 2003, 9:52]
Microsoft talks the talk on security
News The general public's perception of us has all the hallmarks of trust. Ultimately, he expects Palladium to be routinely used to provide users with PCs that they automatically trust for such tasks as visiting bank sites for transactions.
[July 23, 2002, 15:25]
Americans support a ban on 'uncrackable' encryption
News No one should ever trust figures collected in the aftermath of a disaster -- people are confused and emotional, and will be led easily by imagery," said Simon Davies, director of Privacy International.
[September 18, 2001, 14:57]
Limiting encryption may open doors to criminals
News Everyone gets really nervous when you start talking about backdoors because you have to trust the other fellow a lot," said James Lewis, director for the technology and public policy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies...
[September 27, 2001, 10:26]
Verisign aims to make Web services trustworthy
News Software companies are supporting "digital trust" company VeriSign's effort by building interfaces into their e-business infrastructure software, so their business customers can tap into VeriSign's security services.
[February 20, 2002, 14:39]
IBM chip powers emerging security standard
News A consortium of high-tech companies would like consumers and corporations to be able to trust their computers more. The security mechanism uses the publickey, private-key encryption method commonly used for creating digital signatures.
[January 30, 2001, 13:56]
Microsoft says: Trust me
News In particular, enterprises looking at implementing trusted computing systems have to know who manages the trust and -- since the whole purpose of the exercise is to deny any form of access to the untrustworthy user, program or data -- how the...
[July 5, 2002, 19:43]
