Entrust Technologies Limited

Entrust Corporation

Dhanya Thakkar

Glenn C Langford

Jacques Montcalm

Kevin Simzer

Eric R Skinner

Ivo Ruckstuhl

An apparatus and method provides non-repudiation of transaction information such as mark up language forms, using a non-proxy cryptographic application, such as an applet, that provides information to and from the Web browser. Once a user fills out a mark up language-based form as provided, for example, through a Web browser and selects a 'submit' button, the non-proxy cryptographic application sends the completed form to a server or the receiving unit that provided the incomplete form and waits for the server to present confirmation data such as a confirmation request form. In one embodiment, once a confirmation request form is received, the non-proxy cryptographic application temporarily maintains the confirmation request form, namely a representation of the completed form as provided by the server, in temporary (e.g., volatile) memory, such as RAM. The non-proxy cryptographic application then sends a copy of the temporarily maintained confirmation request form to the Web browser for display to a user. If the user accepts the copy of the confirmation request form, it is signed and sent back to the server where it is compared with a stored copy to insure that no tampering of the accepted form occurred.

Method and apparatus for providing non-repudiation of transaction information that includes mark up language data

A method and apparatus for secure group communication detects the deletion of a member of the group and uses the detected deletion to update the security credentials of a group by updating a repository containing credentials of members of a group. Alternatively, updating of the security credentials may be performed by sending a group credential deletion request for a member that has been deleted from the group so that the member deletes a stored copy of the group security credential.

Access and storage of secure group communication cryptographic keys

A method and apparatus for secure group communication allows on-demand procurement of stored security credentials of a group. In one embodiment, this is done by having a processor store at least a portion of the security credentials of the group in a location accessible from more than one member of the group, such as in an encrypted form in a public directory. Security credentials include at least a cryptographic key use to secure information. Each member may have a dedicated entry containing a group security credential associated with that member. The information may also be stored in a variety of other ways including, for example, storing a composite set of encrypted group security credentials. A member accesses the stored group security credentials on an on-demand basis.

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Kanata, Canada

Dhanya Thakkar