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The McCue Interview: BACS' IT chief Nick Masterson-Jones

Comment The new Bacstel-IP network replaces the private telecoms network used by 40,000 businesses and will be secured using public key infrastructure (PKI) and smart card technology to authenticate users and encrypt payment instructions to the clearing...

[14 Sep 2004]

Biometrics: Your questions answered

Comment Does that mean biometrics is doomed to the same scrap heap as universal use of PKI, just to the left of betamax, and around the corner from that huge field of unbought Segways? Last week we asked you to submit questions to our panel of experts on...

Tags: biometrics

[20 Aug 2004]

Devil's Advocate: The thing that could save chip-and-PIN

Devil's Advocate: The thing that could save chip-and-PIN

Comment The solution is a mix of hardware and software technology that connects a mainframe back end through a symmetric encryption tunnel, then on to the customer's browser using PKI. What could help, says Martin Brampton, is if those all-important digits...

Tags: security, chip and pin, egg

[27 Jul 2004]

Leader: Who do you think you are?

Leader: Who do you think you are?

Leader Technology can help - as PKI and authentication beyond the humble password will show us - but on the other hand, politicians and bosses must realise it is not an answer in itself. The twin issues of ID protection and ID theft have crept up on us...

[04 Dec 2003]

The Bloor Perspective: Trusting Trustworthy Computing and m-commerce made easy

Comment It supports PKI, data encryption, identity management, system management, network security, audit, authentication and authorisation. The PKI capability in Server 2003 focuses on ease of use and cost of ownership.

Tags: m-commerce, bango, bloor, trustworthy computing

[12 May 2003]

Through the fog... Public Key Infrastructure

Comment In its wisdom, the industry has defined a framework known as the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) as a management mechanism for public keys. Get to know PKI. Security vendors such as RSA and Entrust have been baffled for years as to why the take-up...

[06 Feb 2003]

IBM to save the government's skin?

Comment But it's here the government is floundering - because although the technology is around (in the guise of PKI) it's not necessarily interoperable from vendor to vendor and there is certainly no service provider who can get it out to the consumer.

[10 May 2002]

The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft licensing off, nCipher - Broadcom deal on, and some technical consensus

Comment PKI security provider, nCipher, has just released information about its plans to work with Broadcom - a major chip manufacturer - on a solution that should be mutually beneficial and also provide better network security.nCipher is a technology...

[01 Oct 2001]

Ipv6: An acronym to shake the networked world

Comment PKI regulates certification and exchange of public keys. However, one of them is urgent - the global network is simply running out of addresses, with the mobile boom heavily contributing to the problem.

[19 Mar 2001]

PKI: Does what it says on the tin?

Comment But if you listen to the experts one answer to the problem is already out there in the form of public key infrastructure (PKI), a technology which allows encrypted data to be sent across the internet, to be read only by its intended recipient(s).

[08 Jan 2001]

Biometrics: When will the industry come to its senses?

Comment Data generated by these features serves as a form of authentication either used as an entry to systems or as a part of the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Biometrics, such as fingerprints, can also function as an authentication part of PKI to...

[30 Nov 2000]

Finland's argument for a smartcard future

Comment ICL Invia acts as the main technology integrator, and iD2 Technologies as the supplier of the PKI technology. The solution uses PKI encryption technology and paves the way for a new generation of electronic services.

[30 Aug 2000]

Windows 2000 Special: Safe as houses?

Comment Birch believes the key feature is Windows 2000's support for smartcard PKI. The fact that Microsoft is pushing PKI is important," he said. It's been the general opinion for a while that PKI is critical to business-to-business ecommerce.

[18 Feb 2000]

The Bloor Perspective: Security, e-procurement and convergence

Comment We know the shape of the solution to the security issue - it is Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) combined with Certification Authorities (CA). * Security on a chip: a threat to civil liberties? Security news was the big concern among our clients...

[04 Oct 1999]

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