ADVISORY/ PKI Forum to Lead Session on Interoperability at RSA Security Conference 2001.Business/Technology Editors ADVISORY...for Wednesday (April 11) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Who: Derek Brink of RSA Security RSA, The Security Division of EMC Corporation, is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, and maintains offices in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, and Japan. RSA organizes the annual RSA conference. and Steve Lloyd of Entrust Technologies, executive board members of the PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) A framework for creating a secure method for exchanging information based on public key cryptography. The foundation of a PKI is the certificate authority (CA), which issues digital certificates that authenticate the identity of Forum, will lead a session on the topic of PKI Interoperability at the RSA Conference The RSA Conference is a Cryptography-related conference held annually in the San Francisco Bay Area. The RSA Conference started in 1991 as a forum for cryptographers to gather and share the latest knowledge and advancements in the area of Internet security. 2001 in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . In addition, Lisa Pretty, president of the PKI Forum (booth #2121), will discuss the Forum's current activities, the status of the PKI industry, and provide an overview of the future market for PKI technology. The PKI Forum (www.pkiforum.org) is an international, not-for-profit alliance comprised of technology and service providers, integrators and end-users whose purpose is to accelerate the adoption and use of PKI. (Public-Key-Infrastructure). Founded in December 1999 by five organizations, the PKI Forum has grown to almost 100 members just 12 months after its first meeting. Principal members of the PKI Forum include Baltimore Technologies, CertCo, Inc., Computer Associates International, Inc., Entrust Technologies, JAWS Technologies, Inc., IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Microsoft Corp., Odyssey Technologies, Ltd., RSA Security Inc., and VeriSign, Inc. What: PKI Interoperability breakout session When: 8:00 a.m. to 8:50 a.m., Wednesday, April 11, 2001 Where: IMAX IMAX Noun a film projection process that produces an image ten times larger than standard theater, Moscone Center, 747 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, Phone: (415) 974.4000 Contact: For more info or to set up an interview, call or email Adam Rosenbaum, PKI Forum, at 781.876.8810 or arosenbaum@virtualmgmt.com |
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