security, privacy, and trust in e-commerce
Wave Systems Corporation's "EMBASSY Trust System" is an end-to-end infrastructure of hardware devices and software tools for trust. Its nucleus is a programmable system-in-a-system that enables each user's platform to serve as a virtuoso "trusted client." Third-party applets can be licensed to run securely in a hardened EMBASSY at the client, placing transactional control at the point of consumption. Revenues flow from licensing platforms to carry EMBASSY, licensing applets to run within EMBASSY, and metering content and providing services through EMBASSY for security, trust, and privacy in e-commerce (IP, VPN, P2P, or broadcast for DRM, healthcare, education, entertainment, etc.).
EMBedded Application Security SYstem
Wave Systems Corporation has developed patented technologies for secure e-commerce. With them it has built a system of security, privacy, and trust called EMBASSY. This is a programmable system-in-a-system. It enables virtually any platform to serve as a "trusted client." The trusted client is the most essential component of the paradigm of security, privacy, and trust at the edge of the network that is envisioned by the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance formed by Compaq, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft in recognition of the principle that end-to-end trust requires that part of the solution reside in hardware at the client.
EMBASSY's programmability means that third-party applets can be licensed to run securely inside a hardened EMBASSY on the client side. This end-to-end approach to secure e-commerce ensures security, privacy, and trust at the edge of the network -- where the user or consumer is. It puts microtransactional flexibility at the point of consumption. It spans the range of all things digital. One exemplar of its implementation is WaveXpress, the Wave-Sarnoff-Fantastic adaptation of digital television broadcasting as a fat pipe for digital datacasting.
The EMBASSY e-commerce system-in-a-system enables virtually any platform to serve as a "trusted client." Third-party applets can be licensed to run securely within the EMBASSY. Its programmable security co-processor can accommodate applets that ensure privacy for user-platforms on networks, authentication for e-commerce transactions and for user-platforms on virtual-private-networks (VPN), and protection of digital intellectual property on networks by integration of digital-rights-management (DRM) technologies. But the range of even more specialized applets -- for business, education, health care, entertainment, or other purposes -- is virtually unlimited.
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