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Strategies & Market Trends : e-Commerce the Next 100 Months...... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jjs_ynot who wrote (1126)	6/9/1998 8:06:00 AM
From: TLindt	Respond to of 2882

Some Security Stuff.... "Security is essential to the growth of Internet-based financial services," said Scott Wallace, chief marketing officer of Integrion Financial Network, a leading provider of interactive banking and electronic commerce services to financial institutions. "Member banks can use BSAFE 4.0 software, with its support for the X9 series of financial and banking standards, to build applications for secure interbank communications with the intention of delivering the type of systems that meet customers' needs for privacy in their online transactions." infoseek.com In granting the waiver, Dryer determined that ''compliance with the referenced FIPS would adversely affect the accomplishment of the mission of the Social Security Administration,'' and that these FIPS ''provide for the use of products which have not gained wide acceptance commercially, and which are not incorporated in commercial off-the-shelf products.'' Dryer further cited the growing customer demand for Internet-based services and the fact that more than 90 percent of the browsers on the market do not support FIPS cryptography algorithms, and determined the SSA must use commercially accepted and available off-the-shelf products to serve its customers effectively and securely. The full waiver is available on the Internet at access.gpo.gov. (Select Federal Register, search for SSA.) biz.yahoo.com Info...Trading near a 52 week low? biz.yahoo.com