Understanding Digital Signatures: Establishing Trust Over the Internet and Other Networks (CommerceNet Press Series) - Softcover

Grant, Gail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070125546 ISBN 13: 9780070125544

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1997

Synopsis

Understanding Digital Signatures: Establishing Trust over the Internet and Other Networks details the business, legal, social, and technological issues surrounding Digital Signatures and public key infrastructure. This book explains this complex technology in terms that a businessperson can understand, covering the unique problems of on-line authentication, how digital signatures help to solve these problems, ways companies are using the technology in real life and issues with its usage. The book includes a list of product and service vendors, future potential and suggestions for companies considering implementation of digital signatures for their customers or employees.

About this title

Synopsis:

This volume explains the technology behind digital signatures and key infrastructures (PKI). These are the standards that make it absolutely safe to buy, sell, sign documents and exchange sensitive financial data on the Internet. The advantages of digital signatures and PKI are explained with numerous examples based on past experience by businesses currently using them. There is also a review of the vendors which offer digital signatures/PKI technology products and applications.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0070125546
• ISBN 13: 9780070125544
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298