Oracle International Corporation

Ramana Rao Turlapati

Andrew B Philips

Raymond K Ng

Saurabh Shrivastava

Hari V N Sastry

Stephen Lee

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for digitally signing electronic mail that originates from a browser. The system operates by first receiving a message from a browser at a mail server. The mail server formats the message and returns the formatted message to the browser so that the browser can sign the message. The mail server then receives the signature for the formatted message from the browser and encapsulates the formatted message and the signature into a secure message. Next, the mail server forwards the secure message to the intended recipients for the message.

Method and apparatus for digitally signing electronic mail that originates from a browser

Embodiments of the invention provide a trust framework for governing service-to-service interactions. This trust framework can provide enhanced security and/or manageability over prior systems. Merely by way of example, in some cases, an information store can be used to store information security information (such as trust information, credentials, etc.) for a variety of services across an enterprise. In other cases, the trust framework can provide authentication policies to define and/or control authentication between services (such as, for example, types of authentication credentials and/or protocols are required to access a particular service&#x2014;either as a user and/or as another service&#x2014;and/or types of authentication credentials and/or protocols a service may be enabled to use to access another service). Alternatively and/or additionally, the trust framework can provide authorization policies to define and/or control authorization between services.

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Fremont, CA, United States of America

Ramana Rao Turlapati