HWP's internet strategy..
This is from the archives at wave.com
The emergence of electronic commerce presents unprecedented opportunities for economic growth and entirely new ways of conducting business, yet it is still in the early stages of development. Security and privacy continue to be primary inhibitors to the growth of the global digital economy. Consumers and businesses need to trust that their transactions are secure and private, and vendors must be assured that their content and services are protected and available only if paid for by authorized transactions.
Understanding these current limitations, Wave Systems and VerSecure, a Hewlett-Packard Company, have created a new technology that brings trust and security to individual PCs in an embedded trusted client system. The trusted client solution promises to significantly extend electronic business options by delivering a client-based solution for e-commerce and Internet security, making the PC central in e-commerce and secure business transactions.
With key industry partners such as VerSecure, RSA Data Security, Sun Microsystems, VeriSign and Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Wave has developed the first trusted client platform, called the EMBASSY E-Commerce System (EMBedded Application Security SYstem). The EMBASSY combines several powerful security tools into a single programmable device that delivers long-needed capabilities to e-commerce clients. The EMBASSY is a separate, secure hardware "system in a system" embedded in PCs or other devices, making it significantly more resistant to hacker attack than software-only approaches. The EMBASSY trusted client architecture contains a secure processor, non-volatile memory, real time clock, triple DES accelerator hardware, VerSecure export controls and a unique identifier.
Worldwide use of cryptography requires balance between government regulations and business needs. VerSecure separates cryptography mechanisms from the policies that manage their use. Once separated, policy management is conducted independent of the mechanisms being managed. The VerSecure architecture involves enabling the cryptographic attributes allowed by the country of import (physical machine location.) Because the device is registered with the country of import, these attributes can manage the ever-changing government regulations, meet the needs of enterprises, developers and government bodies.
The benefit of VerSecure is in enabling the transfer of policy control from one governing body to another, allowing re-exportation of equipment from one governing body to another without device recall.
The EMBASSY provides a standards-based platform for running secure applications, protecting important data, and digital identities in individual PCs. When implemented on various chipsets on PC motherboards, the EMBASSY provides an open, standards-based programmable secure device for as low as $5.00 in added cost.
Each EMBASSY-equipped PC has the ability to execute applications secured by strong encryption before being loaded into EMBASSY?S secure memory. These secure applications can perform virtually any programmatic function. The EMBASSY application can emulate Smart Cards, security co-processors, etc., while providing a secure environment that is independent of the PC operating system, processor, and platform devices.
Services such as secure boot, system authentication, set-top access, measuring usage of digital content, and connectionless e-commerce transactions are just a few of the application models available.
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