Adobe Chooses CyberTrust to Enable Secure Sale and Delivery of eBooks and Other Documents on the Web.Business/Technology Editors NEEDHAM HEIGHTS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2000 Adobe Uses CyberTrust as CA Host to Expand Publishers' e-Commerce Offerings While Reducing Costs and Protecting Copyrighted Materials CyberTrust today announced that Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Incorporated, a leader in print and Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. , has selected CyberTrust's CA Hosting service for use with Adobe(R) PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. Merchant(TM) to secure the content of electronic books (eBooks) available for sale via the Web. CyberTrust's CA Hosting service provides a quick, low cost way to combine digital certificates (electronic credentials) with Adobe's PDF Merchant software. Adobe PDF Merchant is a leading eBooks technology that enables publishers to encrypt See encryption. electronic content as well as distribute the certificates required for access. "Copyright protection has been a major hurdle in the proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous pro·lif·er·a·tion n. of the eBook market," said Joe Eschbach, vice president, ePaper Solutions Group, Adobe Systems Incorporated. "Adobe's objective is to provide publishers, distributors and retailers an easy and secure eBooks solution for distributing and selling content via the Internet. Using CyberTrust's secure certificate hosting facilities we can provide our publishing customers and partners with the ability to efficiently and safely move their businesses to the Web." CyberTrust's advanced security technologies are used in conjunction with Adobe PDF Merchant and Adobe Acrobat Reader The former name of Adobe Reader. See PDF. with Web Buy, a free plug-in for purchasing and reading encrypted en·crypt tr.v. en·crypt·ed, en·crypt·ing, en·crypts 1. To put into code or cipher. 2. Computer Science Adobe Portable Document Format (file format) Portable Document Format - (PDF) The native file format for Adobe Systems' Acrobat. PDF is the file format for representing documents in a manner that is independent of the original application software, hardware, and operating system used to create those documents. (PDF) electronic content from their desktop and laptop computers. Adobe PDF is a natural choice for publishers as most printed content is already maintained in Adobe PDF or Adobe Postscript. Thus, conversion costs are minimized, meaning faster time to market and a stronger competitive edge. "Combining CyberTrust and Adobe technologies will bring security and profitability to the online book industry," said Peter Hussey, president of CyberTrust. "CyberTrust will ensure that publishers and consumers alike will benefit from worry-free electronic content exchange." About CyberTrust CyberTrust is the leading enabler of secure extranets and e-commerce for organizations extending their high-value relationships to the Web. The CyberTrust Secure Extranet Method establishes a first-in-market standard for certificate-enabled extranets that support privilege-based user access, data confidentiality, audit trails and digitally signed Any message or key that has been encrypted with a digital signature. When a user's public key is digitally signed by a certification authority (CA), it is known as a digital certificate or digital ID. See digital signature and digital certificate. , binding transactions. Through our global network of partners, CyberTrust offers the industry's most complete suite of public key infrastructure-based products, outsourcing service and consulting. CyberTrust is headquartered in Needham Heights, Mass., with offices in Washington, D.C., London, England and Sapporo, Japan. You can learn more about CyberTrust at www.cybertrust.com. |
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