Solutions

Equifax's electronic commerce solutions provides third party services for certificate authorities and registration authorities. These services include:

Certificate and Key Management Services
These outsourced services are based on IBM Vault Registry Technology, and offer the customer scalability without large investment.

Certificate and Key Management Services offered:

• High volume, scaleable operations
• Issue, revoke, renew, and suspend certificates
• Cross certification
• Generation of encryption and signing keys
• Secure key distribution
• Support for Smart Cards, PC Cards, browsers, and disks
• Key escrow and recovery

Authentication Services
Equifax's Authentication Services leverage our vast information repository and our years of expertise in authenticating consumers and businesses. The Remote Authentication System (patent pending) is a proprietary methodology that uses both Equifax and customer data and rule sets. It is geared toward answering the key question as to whether people are who they say they are, in an accurate, cost-effective and user-friendly manner.

The Authentication Services offered:

• Consumer, business, and employee authentication
• Standard, and custom authentication models
• On-line, and off-line authentication

Directory Services
Provides highly scaleable repository of certificates, including revoked certificates. This is based on robust business processes developed by Equifax in managing large positive and negative files.

The Directory Services offered:

• Secure access to data repository
• Certificate revoked list storage and access
• Certificate retrieval
• Scaleable X.500 structure