PKI Forum announced

PKI Forum announced
MENLO PARK, Calif. — The formation of the Public Key Infrastructure Forum was announced Monday (Dec. 13) by founding companies IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Baltimore Technologies Inc., RSA Security Inc. and Entrust Technologies Inc. The group is urging companies to move beyond the use of digital signature and IPsec technologies to full public key infrastructure (PKI) policies and architectures.

The coalition intends to develop PKI interoperability profiles in areas such as certificate interoperability, directory-PKI interoperability, application interoperability and certificate validation. The forum will sponsor interoperability demos and work with official standards bodies and test organizations.

The forum is open to equipment manufacturers, independent software vendors, consultants, system integrators and end users.

A number of companies have already expressed an interest in joining the PKI Forum, include British Telecom, Hewlett-Packard Co., ID Certify Inc., Novell Inc., The Open Group, Sun Microsystems/Netscape, Spyrus Inc., Thawte Certification, Trustpoint Inc., ValiCert Inc. and Xcert International Inc.

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