Baltimore Technologies Enables Bulk Issuance of Digital Certificates by Publishing Open XKMS X-BULK Specification

Business Wire, July 16, 2001

"The development of XKMS X-BULK specification is a major initiative to enable a seamless bulk issuance of digital certificates for a multitude of devices, including smart cards," said Jean-Claude Perrin, director, Smart Cards IT & Network at SchlumbergerSema.

Baltimore Technologies and its partners have agreed to grant rights to this specification to W3C once it is accepted for standardization within the scope of the W3C XKMS work. The X-BULK specification is available now at http://www.baltimore.com/devzone/x-bulk. Comments from interested parties are welcome and should be addressed to mailto:xbulk@research.baltimore.com

About Baltimore Technologies

Baltimore Technologies develops and markets security products and services to enable companies to develop trusted, secure systems for e-business, the Internet and mobile commerce. Its products include a wide range of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) products and services, access control and authorization solutions, content security (MIMEsweeper) products, wireless e-security solutions, cryptographic toolkits, security applications and hardware cryptographic devices. Baltimore's global professional services organization offers a wide variety of consulting, training and deployment support to its customers worldwide. Baltimore Technologies markets and sells its solutions worldwide directly and through the TrustedWorld partner program. Baltimore TrustedWorld includes many of the world's leading technology companies and a wide variety of global, regional and local business alliance partners.

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