ELECTRONIC COMMERCE UPDATE

September/October€1996

Bolstering Internet Security Infrastructure

Information Resource Engineering Inc., a provider of secure communications systems solutions using encryption technology, has taken significant steps in building a security infrastructure for the Internet.

As part of its plan to bolster Internet security, IRE has partnered with the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the development of the public key infrastructure (also known as PKI), which will make it possible to send and receive digitally signed documents among organizations and individuals. The NIST team is aiming to develop its minimum interoperability specification, to ensure that PKI components will be able to communicate with each other, regardless of manufacturer.

Members of the NIST team include AT&T Government Markets, BBN Corp., Certicom Corp., Cylink Corp., DynCorp Information & Engineering Technology Inc., Motorola, Northern Telecom Ltd. (Nortel), SPYRUS Inc. and VeriSign, Inc.

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