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INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE MOVES AHEAD WITH PLAN FOR SECURE ELECTRONIC TAX FILING.(signs contract with VeriSign)

Software Industry Report, September, 1998

VeriSign To Provide Digital Certificates, Public Key Infrastructure For IRS ETA Pilot

VeriSign Inc., the Mountain View, Calif., provider of public key infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificate solutions, has been awarded an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) contract for an Electronic Tax Administration (ETA) PKI pilot that will enable secure e-mail and electronic filing of individual tax returns. The IRS will use VeriSign's OnSite product to deploy the fully operational PKI.

The contract also contains an option for an e-filing pilot for IRS employees under which VeriSign would provide its Onsite digital certificate and PKI infrastructure in conjunction with tax-filing applications from partners Intuit and UWI.Com.

Widespread use of ETA would allow...

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