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Gold/Mining/Energy : Certicom Corporation (TSE:CIC, NASD:CERT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ron Nairn who wrote (2527)	12/17/1999 9:35:00 AM
From: caly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4913

I think I will disagree with that, Ron. I don't view Verisign as competition at all. Verisign does, however, use RSA signing for their certificates, so they are using the competition's public key technology in their products. But that's to be expected based on the most widely used applications for their certs...not wireless/handheld.

To: Ron Nairn who wrote (2527)	12/19/1999 1:46:00 PM
From: quartersawyer	Respond to of 4913

Ron- "big". This will ensure that as mobile commerce grows, there will be a standard security platform upon which all mobile commerce software, services and devices can be based. New to the thread, so do I have this right? We have Radicchio, with infrastructure technology from the SmartTest security division of Sonera, from Finland; smartcard manufacture by French Co. Gemplus; systems integration by the powerful EDS, and so on. They believe that the WAP products now being introduced are weak in a number of ways, not the least of which is security, to the degree that mobile e-commerce (m-commerce) will be stunted until the security issue is resolved. All press releases from Radicchio point with pride to the 1024 bit assymetric encryption in their current design. That RSA encryption is slow and expensive to the tune of adding a few dollars per card and more at the receiving end. I'm no tech wiz, and all this is new from links over the past half hour or so, so please correct me. There are two alternative reasons for CIC to be accepted and to join-- 1)ECC by CIC will replace the existing code within the standard being developed ; or 2) CIC is at war with entrenched powers, but CIC's technical and cost advantages seems insurmountable, therefore what we're watching is a licensing and royalty negotiation. I can't find any specific or guesstimate with regard to royalties paid to Certicom per device. Has it been possible to breakdown anything from the financial report?