With products due to enter beta testing by the second quarter, the technologies would allow corporations to decrypt documents or messages by combining information that reconstructs a private key. The announcement of the underlying technologies used in IBM's key recovery strategy came on the same day that the Key Recovery Alliance, a collection of more than 45 software and hardware vendors, held their second meeting to discuss interoperability issues. Registry and World. While similar in nature, Net. Registry is aimed at helping corporations to issue their own digital certificates to users or customers, while World.
Registry is aimed at providing an outsourced service for corporations.
IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., also announced at the show that its Net. Commerce offering, which makes use of the Secure Electronic Transaction standard, has been granted exportation clearance by the U.S. government, enabling it to be shipped internationally while still making use of strong cryptography. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of ZDNet is prohibited. ZDNet and the ZDNet logo are trademarks of Ziff-Davis Publishing Company.