Terisa Systems Announces SecureWeb Documents Digital Signature Application for Secure Internet Commerce; Product Provides Real-Time Authentication, Encryption and Non-Repudiation of Online Documents.LOS ALTOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 1996--Terisa Systems Inc., a provider of tools and applications that enable secure electronic commerce, today announced the availability of its SecureWeb Documents digital signature application product. SecureWeb Documents is the first software product to be offered by Terisa that leverages the company's standards-based SecureWeb Toolkit platform. SecureWeb Documents provides real-time security to mission-critical documents transacted via the Web or corporate intranets. SecureWeb Documents offers dynamic, real-time signing of documents, providing users with message-level encryption, authentication of all parties, and non-repudiation of message content. These features are mission-critical for businesses who wish to exchange legally binding documents over the Web. The software's ability to store, retrieve and manipulate documents dynamically differentiates it from present store-and-forward e-mail technologies that primarily handle only static documents. SecureWeb Documents runs on standard Web platforms, and complements and extends existing certification and message security technologies. SecureWeb Documents is Terisa Systems' first application product aimed at fulfilling the needs of end users at large Fortune 1000 organizations. "While most other digital signature products are proprietary, SecureWeb Documents is an open application for digital signatures that follows our mission to provide standards-based solutions," said Allan Schiffman, chief technical officer, Terisa Systems. "The product takes digital signature technology a step further by providing real-time, dynamic signature and transaction of mission-critical documents over standard Web platforms." Terisa is concentrating on three primary vertical markets: banking/financial services, government/law and healthcare. Specific examples of how these industries will use SecureWeb Documents include the processing of loan applications, secure stock trading, IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. filings, online legal depositions and medical claims. Law-on-Line, Inc. runs a website for the Pima County Consolidated Justice Courts in the State of Arizona (http://lawonline.jp.pima.gov). Development of a site to allow access to electronic filings using Terisa's SecureWeb Documents technology is currently under review. John H. Messing, head of Internet programming at Law-on-Line, is pleased with the benefits that SecureWeb Documents brings to the enterprise. "Secure Web Documents is ideal for those concerned with the level of security on the Internet," said Messing. "SecureWeb Documents provides a shield against uninvited access to legal documents transmitted over the Web. Terisa's technology protects a firm's digitally signed documents, while providing authorized users unobstructed access to the information--transparently." About SecureWeb Documents By using standard digital ID's (x509.v3 certificates), SecureWeb Documents can affix affix v. 1) to attach something to real estate in a permanent way, including planting trees and shrubs, constructing a building, or adding to existing improvements. a digital signature to an electronic document. The result is impossible to alter or falsify falsify, v to forge; to give a false appearance to anything, as to falsify a record. without detection, unlike a written signature. In addition to signing a document, SecureWeb Documents provides: -- Encryption. Protect the privacy of communications by encrypting messages; -- Authentication. Assure the authenticity of a document/message by including a message authentication code A cryptographic message authentication code (MAC) is a short piece of information used to authenticate a message. A MAC algorithm accepts as input a secret key and an arbitrary-length message to be authenticated, and outputs a MAC (sometimes known as a tag). ; -- Non-repudiation. Save a signed document, such as an HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. form or a Word, Excel or PDF file, on disk so it can be used later as proof of the transaction. Examples could include purchase orders, stock transaction receipts, or insurance applications. SecureWeb Documents works transparently for the end-user offering complete document/message security with little or no user intervention or security knowledge required. Pricing and Availability The client version of SecureWeb Documents 1.0 is available for general release on Dec. 15, 1996, as a plug-in for Netscape Navigator 3.0 on Windows 95/Windows NT. It has received the Federal Government's Commodity Jurisdiction (CJ) approval for worldwide export. SecureWeb Documents 1.0 client version will be available free of charge from Terisa Systems' web site for download. The client product will also be available for Internet Explorer/Windows 95 in the second quarter of 1997. Web servers that currently support the SecureWeb Documents client are WebSite Pro from O'Reilly and Associates O'Reilly and Associates - The leading publisher of information on the Internet, Unix, the X Window System and other open systems. They also provide the Global Network Navigator service. Home page. and the NCSA (1) (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana-Champaign, IL, www.ncsa.uiuc.edu) A high-performance computing facility located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Secure HTTPD (HTTP Daemon) A Web server (HTTP server) available from the NCSA for various versions of Unix. Developed at CERN, httpd was the first Web server. Along with the Mosaic browser, httpd and Mosaic provided the first graphical client/server interaction on the Web. See NCSA and Apache. web server. The server version of SecureWeb Documents 1.0 will be initially available for Netscape Enterprise Server A Web server from Netscape that runs under NT, Solaris and HP-UX. It supports JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology, Java servlets and Server-Side JavaScript (SSJS). It was superseded by iPlanet Web Server and renamed again in 2002 as Sun ONE Web Server. 2.0 running on Solaris version 2.5. Early access release is scheduled for Dec. 23, 1996, with general availability and pricing in the first quarter of 1997. A version of the server product for Windows NT will be available within 1997. About Terisa Systems Terisa Systems' SecureWeb Toolkit provides a robust, ready-to-use and unified security platform for Web-based applications managing commercial transactions. Terisa Systems is committed to supporting all open security standards for electronic commerce in its SecureWeb Toolkit. The Toolkit, currently available on Windows and 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). platforms, includes support for S-HTTP S-HTTP Secure Hyper Text Transport Protocol , SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. , and SET. Terisa Systems, Inc., based in Los Altos, was formed in 1995 to provide unified communications security solutions for the World Wide Web. In early 1995, leading industry players such as America Online, CompuServe, 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) , Netscape, RSA (1) (Rural Service Area) See MSA. (2) (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) A highly secure cryptography method by RSA Security, Inc., Bedford, MA (www.rsa.com), a division of EMC Corporation since 2006. It uses a two-part key. and VeriFone/EIT forged a common commitment to WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. security by agreeing to pool both investment and technology in Terisa Systems. Terisa Systems' mission is to create the critical tools and applications that make secure electronic commerce possible. The company is also actively involved in promoting open, universal security protocol standards in the industry. The company is privately held. For more information on Terisa Systems, visit http://www.terisa.com -0- Note to Editors: Terisa Systems is a registered trademark and SecureWeb Toolkit and SecureWeb Documents are trademarks of Terisa Systems, Inc. CONTACT: Terisa Systems Ken Mohr, 415/919-1776 ken@terisa.com or The Horn Group Katie Belding or Bonnie Harris, 415/579-6400 kbelding@horngroup.com bharris@horngroup.com |
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