CitX Through Baltimore Technologies to Build Secure Certification Authority, CA, for Management and Authentication of Digital Identities.QUAKERTOWN, Pa.--(BW HealthWire)--Sept. 27, 1999-- CitX Will Securely Create, Manage and Authenticate Digital IDs in Healthcare and Internet e-Commerce CitX Corporation, through Baltimore Technologies Baltimore Technologies was an internet security firm founded in 1976 by Michael Purser. It was acquired in 1996 by a team financed by Dermot Desmond and led by Fran Rooney, who became CEO. (London:BLM BLM n abbr (US) (= Bureau of Land Management) → les domaines ), a global leader in Public Key Infrastructure (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 )-based cryptographic solutions, today announces it will build and operate a Certification Authority See CA. (CA) facility to securely create, manage and authenticate digital signatures and identity credentials on behalf of individuals and entities involved in Healthcare and Internet e-Commerce. As a Certification Authority, CitX will provide a method via the Internet for people and businesses to automatically certify the credentials of an entity with which they wish to transact business. Services offered by the Certification Authority facility will become an integral component of IntraPay, CitX's e-Commerce platform, providing clients with advanced bank-level security for their financial transactions. CitX will complete construction of a military-grade secure bunker at its Quakertown, PA location to house its new Certification Authority facility, planned to be in operation by December of this year. "Digital signatures and identity credentials are the computerized equivalent of a person's own signature and passport, which in this case are maintained, managed and authenticated by the Certification Authority as a 'trusted third party,'" explains Bernie Roemmele, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CitX Corporation. The function of a Certification Authority is similar to that of a passport office passport office passport n → bureau m de délivrance des passeports passport office passport n → Passamt nt passport office in that the authority certifies that the person is who he or she claims to be, through a set of authentication policies. Any country that trusts the authority and policies of the passport office will also trust the information in a passport, which authenticates the identity of an individual. Similarly, the Certification Authority is a trusted entity guided by a set of policies with the primary responsibility of certifying the authenticity of its users. "The need for digital authentication of user identities and credentials is fundamental to the success of valid Internet-based business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-Commerce transactions or secure electronic information exchange," notes Roemmele. "CitX will integrate its proprietary credentials certification and secure transaction exchange technology into its new Certification Authority architecture. This will allow authorized individuals to access authenticated credentials maintained by the new Certification Authority while guarding against identity fraud and fully protecting the privacy of an individual's identity credentials." The new Certification Authority will be deployed over a distributed fault-tolerant server architecture consisting of a distributed switched network topology See topology. , intelligent hardware/software firewall and redundant UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Microsoft NT servers. CitX will use Baltimore's UniCERT PKI system cryptographic toolkit, Oracle's integrated enterprise development tools Oracle8i, and CitX's own SynerX e-Solution deployment tools to rapidly develop and customize integrated secure e-Commerce solutions to meet the security and privacy needs of its clients. About Baltimore ================= Baltimore Technologies develops and markets security products and services for a wide range of e-Commerce and enterprise applications. Its products include Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) systems, cryptographic toolkits, security applications and hardware cryptographic devices. Baltimore UniCERT is a modular, scalable, multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective Certificate Authority (CA) which issues and manages digital certificates for a wide range of applications including e-mail, browsers and virtual private networks. Baltimore PKI-Plus is a developer toolkit to PKI-enable legacy and new applications by providing support for a wide range of cryptographic, directory, smartcard and CA systems. Baltimore's PKI products are available directly and via global Trusted World partners. All products are supported by professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. comprising of system integration and consulting. Baltimore Technologies was formed by the merger in January 1999 of Zergo Holdings plc and Baltimore Technologies Ltd. It has customers in over forty countries worldwide including some of the world's leading financial, e-Commerce, telecommunications companies and government agencies. Baltimore Technologies plc is a public company quoted on the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. (BLM). Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking is a minority shareholder in the Company. Baltimore operates from 15 cities worldwide with main offices in London, Dublin, Boston and Sydney. Baltimore Technologies made e-Commerce history in 1998 when President Clinton and Ireland's Prime Minister Ahern 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. an inter-governmental communique using security technology provided by Baltimore. For further information and press releases on Baltimore Technologies, please visit http://www.baltimore.com. About CitX ================= CitX Corporation is a global leader in providing Web-based integrated e-Solution deployment tools, scalable Web-EDI and XML-enabled e-Commerce, Vertical Portal A Web site that provides news, articles and services to a particular industry such as IT, finance and retail. It is the industry-specific equivalent of the general-purpose portal on the Web. Also called a "vortal." See portal, corporate portal, business intelligence portal and Web hub. and e-Community platforms, and secure distributed Internet/intranet infrastructure. CitX's SynerX suite of Web-centric tools enables the rapid deployment of scalable integrated e-Business, e-Healthcare and other "Future-Proof e-Solutions" that are Web-centric and Enterprise-receptive. The SynerX tools are divided into three categories: B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business and B2C e-Commerce B2C e-commerce The conducting of commerce by companies, government agencies, and institutions with consumers over the Internet. Amazon.com is typical of a company engaged in B2C e-commerce. , Vertical Portal Generation and Management, and Web-centric Software Application Deployment and Management, with specific vertical functionality for healthcare, insurance, banking, legal, retail and government applications. Primary services provided by CitX include fault-tolerant self-healing Internet/intranet distributed networks for secure reliable data transmission and exchange, Web-based electronic payment collection/disbursement with integrated bill presentment, automated Web-to-any electronic messaging, enterprise-to-Web middleware crosswalks, and Internet-based personalized Data Warehouse, Data Mart and Mining services. For more information, contact CitX Corporation at 215/538-3535, by e-mail at info@citx.net, or visit the CitX Web site at http://www.citx.net, and the SynerX Web site at http://www.synerx.com. |
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