Services

The CertiPath bridge will provide the following services to customers:

1. Premium Service:  Cross-certifications of the Bridge to companies/governments PKIs (for those firms that operate their own internal PKI solutions)
   
        a.      Review of annual audits of the cross-certified PKIs 
        b.      Consulting services for cross-certifying
    
2. Standard Service:  Signing a companies root CA certificate with CertiPath’s common policy root CA certificate.  This accomplishes the same as the Premium Service but does not require a full cross-certification as the customer’s PKI now operates under a pre-certified Certificate Policy (CP).  The CPS must still be mapped.
    
3. Supporting Services:  Directory service, Professional services
    
4. Each of the three founders will also provide Digital Certificates on their own, which are interoperable with the other founders’ certificates, as well as any other PKIs which is cross-certified with the CertiPath bridge.  This will further secure the global Supply Chain, and create trust among geographically-dispersed trading partners.

Benefits Created For the Global Supply Chain by CertiPath

These services will allow users of the CertiPath bridge to perform the following business tasks with anyone else who is part of the Bridge:

     · Secure document exchange

     · Collaborative engineering

     · Secure e-mail

     · Digital Signatures/non-repudiation of transactions

     · Transaction security between systems

Basic benefit of using the CertiPath bridge or bridge-enabled Certificates:

     · “Buy once, reach many” customers… globally - now you can trust any CertiPath-certified digital
        identity

     · Assurance that others are reasonably compliant to accepted security standards/policies

Technology

Public key infrastructure is a set of standards based systems that use mathematical techniques to provide encryption, signatures and other similar functions for authentication, confidentiality, non-repudiation and integrity. These functions are typically used for e-business applications. A key component of Public Key Infrastructure is a system called a Certificate Authority. A Certificate Authority identifies individuals and "entities" (such as an individual or a network subsystem) electronically in a legally recognized method (kind of like an electronic notary).