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Isode and Authera Provide Critical Infrastructure for Federal Bridge Certification Authority.
Isode and Authera combine to provide directory products and services to the Federal Bridge Certification Authority, enabling transitive trust among entities cross certified with the FBCA.
(LONDON - May 13, 2004) - US Government agencies are making increased use of digitally signed transactions, using X.509 PKI certificates. The implementation of trust within an entity PKI is based on a Certification Authority (CA), which issues certificates to its end users, as well as its management functions to publish certificate and certificate status information in a directory or a database.
The FBCA challenge was to facilitate the interoperability of that trust and authentication system among disparate entity PKIs; thereby, enabling a user, say in one entity PKI, to verify a digital signature made by another user in a different entity PKI .
The FBCA required a directory server that supported both X.500 and LDAP. The FBCA Operational Authority conducted a limited market analysis of available directories that offered this capability. M-vault X.500 was one among these products. Four factors made M-Vault X.500 the choice for FBCA:
- It supports "LDAP Chaining", which meets the federal PKI requirements to support LDAP PKI clients.
- It has the ability to support X.500 chaining to support the widely adopted protocol in the federal government.
- Isode's M-Vault X.500 was more robust than all alternatives in the LDAP stress tests that FBCA Operational authority performed.
- Authera provided the FBCA with responsive, on-site installation, maintenance and support.
Details on this customer and the solution implemented by ISode and Authera can be found on the Isode website at: http://www.isode.com/press/case-federal-bridge.html .
About Isode
Isode is a software product company, originally established in 1992. Its M-Vault (LDAP Directory Server) and M-Switch (SMTP Message Switch) are used around the world by Multinational Corporations, Government Departments, ISPs, and Universities including BT Ignite, Federal Bridge Certification Authority, Novis Telecom, EDS, PTM.com, Queens University Belfast, Steria Limited, Her Majestys Government Computing Centre (HMGCC), Leeds Learning and The Government of Alberta.
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Isode
Lydia Steyn
+44 (20) 8783 0203
lydia.steyn@isode.com
Thursday, May 13th, 2004
