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Credit-card company seeks strong encryption
July 1996
QPSX Communications Pty subsidiary of Ltd, a Australia-based Telstra Corp. QPSX will function as a CyberGuard Value Added Reseller. The CyberGuard Firewall will be added to QPSX’s total secure networking solutions offerings and will be marketed and sold in Australia, New Zealand and throughout Southeast Asia. As more and more companies utilize the Internet and corporate intranets, the risk of penetration from unauthorized users continues to rise, and the need for proven, complete security grows. The original cell switching concept on which QPSX was founded has been developed into a range of Broadband Service Network (BSN) products. QPSX is also developing a range of communication security products.These new products, encompassing both hardware and software, address the requirements of electronic messaging to the Internet desktop, and electronic commerce security, Certification Authority and Multifunction Secure Communications Devices. For furfher information, con tat f C yberGuard Europe Ltd on: +44 1276 686886.
Credit-card company seeks strong encryption One of Japan’s largest credit-card issuers plans to set up the nation’s first Internet shopping malls using strong encryption technology from the USA, reports the WullStreef Journal. JCB plans by next year to establish a new page on the WWW on which
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participating merchants can set up their own catalogue pages. To ensure the privacy of the credit-card transactions, the company will use the encryption standard Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) which was developed by Microsoft, Netscape, Visa International and Mastercard International. SET is designed to guarantee the security of financial transactions by scrambling credit-card numbers and other sensitive information using encryption-based coding techniques. The company will by the SET technology from Microsoft who are expected to intercede with the US government over export controls on encryption. Microsoft will apply for permission from the US government to sell the strong version.
Barclays’ pilot for electronic commerce Barclays has announced the launch of a pilot to facilitate electronic commerce between British businesses. Called Barclays PurchaseOnline, this new Internet service and the first of its kind in Europe, will enable companies to view, order and pay for a variety of their industrial and office supplies. Access to PurchaseOnline is made through the Internet where the corporate buyer is able to view a range of business supplies from on-screen electronic catalogues. Payment for goods ordered will be made by a Company Barclaycard Purchasing card, a specially adapted corporatevisa card. PurchaseOnline will be the first British application of 128-bit key encryption, one of the highest forms of security
currently available. The encryption method scrambles data being transmitted to protect it against unauthorized access to the system. This is using 128-bit key encryption under a licence from the US Government to secure payment details. for further information, contact Chris Tucker; Barclays Bank P/c. on: +44 17 16992669.
librarians develop Internet protocol According to the Financial Times order could soon be brought to the chaos of the Internet by an obscure computer protocol developed by librarians to share electronic library records. The protocol, 239.50, could have important implications for anyone using the Internet as a source of information. It is a client/server application protocol that allows one computer system to search and retrieve information from another computer system. 239.50 is a language that allows non-compatible databases to communicate. So long as both sides can ‘speak’ 239.50, the client can retrieve information from structured databases of different types in a consistent way. It has been adopted as a US national standard and it has been extended to allow a wider range of data types to be recognized, including files containing multimedia components such as images and sound. It would be necessary to get widespread agreement to adopt 239.50 as a network standard. It would require all
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QPSX Communications Pty subsidiary of Ltd, a Australia-based Telstra Corp. QPSX will function as a CyberGuard Value Added Reseller. The CyberGuard Firewall will be added to QPSX’s total secure networking solutions offerings and will be marketed and sold in Australia, New Zealand and throughout Southeast Asia. As more and more companies utilize the Internet and corporate intranets, the risk of penetration from unauthorized users continues to rise, and the need for proven, complete security grows. The original cell switching concept on which QPSX was founded has been developed into a range of Broadband Service Network (BSN) products. QPSX is also developing a range of communication security products.These new products, encompassing both hardware and software, address the requirements of electronic messaging to the Internet desktop, and electronic commerce security, Certification Authority and Multifunction Secure Communications Devices. For furfher information, con tat f C yberGuard Europe Ltd on: +44 1276 686886.
Credit-card company seeks strong encryption One of Japan’s largest credit-card issuers plans to set up the nation’s first Internet shopping malls using strong encryption technology from the USA, reports the WullStreef Journal. JCB plans by next year to establish a new page on the WWW on which
01996
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participating merchants can set up their own catalogue pages. To ensure the privacy of the credit-card transactions, the company will use the encryption standard Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) which was developed by Microsoft, Netscape, Visa International and Mastercard International. SET is designed to guarantee the security of financial transactions by scrambling credit-card numbers and other sensitive information using encryption-based coding techniques. The company will by the SET technology from Microsoft who are expected to intercede with the US government over export controls on encryption. Microsoft will apply for permission from the US government to sell the strong version.
Barclays’ pilot for electronic commerce Barclays has announced the launch of a pilot to facilitate electronic commerce between British businesses. Called Barclays PurchaseOnline, this new Internet service and the first of its kind in Europe, will enable companies to view, order and pay for a variety of their industrial and office supplies. Access to PurchaseOnline is made through the Internet where the corporate buyer is able to view a range of business supplies from on-screen electronic catalogues. Payment for goods ordered will be made by a Company Barclaycard Purchasing card, a specially adapted corporatevisa card. PurchaseOnline will be the first British application of 128-bit key encryption, one of the highest forms of security
currently available. The encryption method scrambles data being transmitted to protect it against unauthorized access to the system. This is using 128-bit key encryption under a licence from the US Government to secure payment details. for further information, contact Chris Tucker; Barclays Bank P/c. on: +44 17 16992669.
librarians develop Internet protocol According to the Financial Times order could soon be brought to the chaos of the Internet by an obscure computer protocol developed by librarians to share electronic library records. The protocol, 239.50, could have important implications for anyone using the Internet as a source of information. It is a client/server application protocol that allows one computer system to search and retrieve information from another computer system. 239.50 is a language that allows non-compatible databases to communicate. So long as both sides can ‘speak’ 239.50, the client can retrieve information from structured databases of different types in a consistent way. It has been adopted as a US national standard and it has been extended to allow a wider range of data types to be recognized, including files containing multimedia components such as images and sound. It would be necessary to get widespread agreement to adopt 239.50 as a network standard. It would require all
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