Entrust is a subsidiary of Northern Telecom. GTE Digital Certificates Used in Electronic Commerce Pilot GTE, in conjunction with Mellon Bank, MasterCard International and the U.S. Treasury have teamed up on a U.S.-based electronic commerce initiative to sell U.S. savings bonds over the Internet. Participants in the pilot will have restricted online access, using MellonBank MasterCard payment cards to access the Treasury Department's Bureau of Public Debt to buy U.S. savings bonds. SET is an open protocol that details how payment card transactions on the Internet will be secured via encryption and digital certificates. The software includes installation, configuration and security management modules.
Fast cryptography is critical to promoting confidence in online transactions.
Cryptographic acceleration provides a solution to the bottleneck caused when secure keys are used on Web servers. The accelerator interfaces with standard SCSI platforms and mounts in a standard 3.5-inch disk drive bay. It offloads the encryption burden to a dedicated co-processor, running at high speed. Digitivity Debuts Applet for Secure Java Deployment Digitivity Inc., Los Altos, Calif., has rolled out a system called CAGE that enables companies to leverage Java applets without risking security of their networks by addressing both the management and security concerns posed by mobile-code technologies such as Java. Digitivity's Applet management system provides automated security by running all applets outside the firewall, to ensure they never compromise network security.