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| Aladdin Knowledge Systems offers products used to manage network security, including applications for managing content and guarding against computer viruses. Aladdin's products are incorporated into virtual private networks, intranets, and extranets. Aladdin also offers software protection systems that enable software developers to securely distribute and manage software licenses and other electronic content. Aladdin's products include: “HASP and Hardlock,” hardware-based software security systems; “Privilege” software commerce solutions, “eToken,” a powerful two-factor authentication USB device and the “eSafe” suite of anti- virus and content security solutions |
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| Alchemedia is a supplier of security software, focusing on the needs of customers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, high technology, and manufacturing sectors. Alchemedia’s “Mirage Enterprises,” which is comprised of the “Mirage Server” and the “Mirage Client,” enables users to view and collaborate on documents in a secure environment. The Mirage Server is software (installed on web servers) that flags documents for protection by encoding policy limits and/or enciphering the data. The Mirage Client is software that decrypts data sent to it by the Mirage Server and enforces limitations on what authorized users can do with the data. |
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| Alpha-Tec is a research and development company providing digital image and video processing software, including watermarking products for images, video, audio, and 3D graphics. |
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| AlpVision provides digital watermarking, image processing, security products, and other services. AlpVision’s video watermarking technology, which is applicable to digital and analog video, can be used for tracking, fingerprinting, and copyright infringement detection. AlpVision’s “Signit!” is digital image processing software used to embed and retrieve registration numbers from signed images. AlpVision’s “LabelIt!” is an application that can be used to embed a string of 20 characters in a scanned image. The Company’s “CD-Check” application provides secure access to CD-ROM |
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| Authentica is a provider of DRM technology for electronic documents, web pages, and e-mail. Authentica’s products include “PageRecall” (for electronic documents, “NetRecall” (for web content), and “MailRecall” (for e- mail). The Company’s products are built around Authentica’s patented “Active Rights Management” technology, which combines content security and DRM technology within its client-server architecture. Authentica’s “Content Security Server,” is a web application for securely distributing and controlling e- mail and attachments |
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| CenterSpan Communications develops and markets secure software-based Internet and intranet content delivery solutions for media and communications service providers and corporate customers. CenterSpan’s “C-StarOne” is a content delivery solution designed for delivering large files such as digital audio, video, executables, and data files. The C-StarOne service is capable of supporting a variety of DRM technologies that enable content owners to set their own “usage rules” for copyrighted materials. Value-added services complementary to C-StarOne delivery include content preparation, publishing, security, and data analysis. |
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| Certicom Corporation is an encryption technology company specializing in security solutions for mobile computing and wireless data markets, including mobile ecommerce. Certicom’s “movianDM” provides centralized policy management for secure mobile devices, which can be used by network administrators in connection with other Certicom products to centrally manage, deploy and enforce common handheld security devices |
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| Cisco Systems provides networking solutions that connect computing devices and computer networks, allowing people to access or transfer information without regard to differences in time, place, or type of computer. Cisco Systems developed the Open Conditional Content Access Management (OCCAM), an encryption-based open technolo gy standard for use in protecting digital content from unauthorized copying, distribution, and playback, which can be used to protect content during transmission and storage in any public, private or home network. |
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| ContentGuard, a DRM technology company, developed and promoted a standard digital rights language known as Extensible Rights Markup Language (XrML), a means of defining and controlling the rights and conditions associated with the use of copyrighted materials, which is discussed more fully below. ContentGuard offers version 2.0 of XrML, which extends the range of rights-enabled business models applicable to digital content as well as web services. Using XrML 2.0, a single digital rights language can be used to assign fine-grained rights and conditions to both digital content and services. |
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| The Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a voluntary, not-for-profit, industry-led organization that offers licensing and infringement protection services for both electronic and paper-based works. Created in 1978 at the suggestion of Congress, CCC today is a clearinghouse for processing rights for copyrighted text materials, with bilateral contracts with almost 20 counterpart organizations in other countries. Beginning with a simple transactional service by which rights holders and users could exchange permissions and royalties relating to the licensing of photocopying, CCC has developed a suite of licensing services to provide materials for education in colleges and universities. In 2000, CCC launched its “Rightslink” service, a technology protection system that allows publishers to engage in point-of-content licensing of materia ls published on web sites. |
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| Digimarc Corporation is a provider of patented digital watermarking technologies that allow imperceptible digital code to be embedded in the printed or digital version of visual content, to deter counterfeiting and enhance Internet access. Digimarc’s "ImageBridge" provides notice of copyrights and licensing opportunities for producers and distributors of commercial photographs. The Company’s "MediaBridge" provides the means to link directly from printed materials to specific Internet sites by showing the enabled document to an imaging device. Digimarc’s "Excalibur" contains a covert packaging security feature intended to deter counterfeiting, tampering and diversion of consumer packaged goods. |
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| Digital World Services (DWS), a subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG, provides DRM solutions to the entertainment and publishing companies. DWS developed the “ADp2RA System,” which is the foundation for its digital distribution solutions and services. When a digital content product is sold, this system grants initial consumer content rights, administers and manages the renewal, revocation and backup of thoserights, and securely transfers the secure digital content throughout the digital distribution process. |
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| DMDsecure is a developer of server-side software components, frameworks and solutions. The company's “DMDfusion” is a DRM system that enables the creation, management, and delivery of licenses to entities offering access to protected content through trusted media players and devices. DMDfusion is used to manage and control the rights to high- value digital learning materials such as multimedia tutorials, video presentations, and textbooks. DMDsecure’s “DMDaccess,” a server side delivery rights enforcement solution for the delivery of live and on-demand streaming content, includes flexible rights settings such as time limitations and expiration dates. |
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| Elisar Software is a supplier of DRM software applications. Elisar's “MediaRights” client is a digital enforcement technology that allows all forms of multimedia content to be safely displayed and distributed across intranets, extranets, and over the Internet. The application protects web site content by preventing unauthorized users from copying, forwarding, saving or printing images, multimedia files, documents, and other on- line information. MediaRights operates as a software service in conjunction with industry standard viewers. |
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| eSynch is a software development company that designs and delivers turnkey and customized solutions for the digital delivery of rich media contents. eSynch's products include “MediaOffice,” a suite of browser-based administration tools allowing flexible, secure and intelligent Internet distribution of business media content; “Media Rights Manager,” an integrated DRM system for secure Internet distribution of video content; and “SiteStreamer,” a software toolkit that allows web sites to stream video in a more intelligent fully branded environment. |
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| FileOpen Systems is a DRM technology provider. The “FileOpen Publisher” is a desktop DRM solution for managing access to PDF documents. The FileOpen Publisher has two components: “File Open Author” (for encrypting documents and setting permissions) and “File Open Client” (an Acrobat plug- in which enforces security settings on end-user computers). |
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| Gemplus International is a provider of technology, products and services that enable wireless network operators to offer their customers secure communications transactions through smart cards and related software. |
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| Info2Clear is a DRM company assisting authors, content creators, and rights owners in the secure distribution of digital content. The company also provides technology for secure e- mail exchange. Info2Clear’s products include: “get-a-seal” (for registration and certification of copyrightable content) and “get-a-copy” (an infrastructure for selling reproduction rights). Info2Clear offers a digitally signed, forgery proof registration certificate with a time stamp to provide evidence to defend rights. Info2Clear’s “get-a-view Publisher” is a DRM solution for publishers interested in entering the eBook market. Info2Clear’s “eBookSuite” is an eBook-making tool set for publishers, which includes DRM technology. |
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| Infraworks Corporation is a supplier of DRM products based on its patented “InTether” technology, which enables organizations to create and securely share digital files. The “InTether File Security Series” is a collection of applications that protect digital files both inside and outside an organization. InTether File Security Series is comprised of two components: the “Packager” (which generates encrypted packages) and the “Receiver” (a client-side application that controls access and enforces permissions). The Series includes: the “InTether Desktop” (providing for secure e- mail), the “InTether Server” (providing for secure distribution over the Internet), and the “InTether SecureCD” (providing for secure distribution of CD-ROMs). |
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| Intel Corporation, a maker of semiconductor chips, supplies the computing and communications industry with chips, boards, systems that are integral components of computers, servers, and networking and communications products. Intel developed the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), a technology to protect uncompressed digital content as it travels over Digital Visual Interface (DVI) links to computer monitor or television displays. |
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| IBM creates, develops and manufactures advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, networking systems, storage devices, and microelectronics. IBM’s Electronic Media Management System (EMMS) is an integrated DRM system that enables users to process media business data to package content with associated digital rights into encrypted containers for distribution to EMMS content delivery networks, retailers and enterprise portals. |
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| InterTrust Technologies Corporation | InterTrust Technologies developed a general purpose DRM platform, allowing for the protection and management of rights and interests in digital information including music, videos, software, games, publications and images. InterTrust’s “RightsSystem” DRM platform is designed to implement a range of DRM functions, including persistent protection of digital information of all types and support for simple to complex business models. The RightsSystem consists of three elements. The “Rights/System Packager” enables content owners, distributors, and service providers to create digital content and package the products for distribution. The “Rights/System Server” allows content owners to establish and maintain the secure infrastructure for the system and authorize and deliver rights to the users of the system. The “Rights/System Client” enables consumers to access and use protected content on a variety of devices, including PCs, mobile phones and communicators, set-top boxes, and music players.Note: InterTrust was recently acquired by Sony of America, Koninklijke Philios Electronics N.V., and another investor. |
| Liquid Audio is a provider of software, infrastructure and services for the secure digital delivery of media over the Internet. Liquid Audio's open platform enables the digital delivery of music over the Internet, giving artists, record companies, web sites and retailers the ability to create, syndicate and sell recorded music with copy protection and copyright management. Liquid Audio's digital distribution system is based on patented DRM technology and technologies for secure content transfer to portable devices, as well as the ability to honor territorial restrictions for digital music content.Note: In 2002, Liquid Audio sold its domestic and foreign rights to its patents to Microsoft, and Liquid Audio received a royalty- free license to continue to use the technology. In 2003, Liquid Audio sold its digital music fulfillment business to Geneva Media, LLC. |
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| LockStream Corporation creates software that secures distribution of content, products and services across all platforms and wireless devices. LockStream’s “Secure Package Creator” takes content in its native format (for example, MP3) and secures it for digital distribution by converting a raw media file into a secure file. LockStream’s “License Generator” creates and validates licenses for content packaged and secured in the LockStream format, setting forth the rules governing how digital media can be played or rendered across various consumer devices. LockStream’s “Secure Package Reader” authenticates media before it can be rendered for playback on various devices. |
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| Macrovision Corporation produces copyright protection and video scrambling technologies for commercial videocassette duplicators, software companies, set-top decoder manufacturers, and major motion picture studios. Macrovision’s video products prevent unauthorized copying and viewing of programs stored on videocassette and DVD or broadcast on pay-per-view cable and over satellite networks. A major supplier for Hollywood studios, over the past few years Macrovision has broadened its focus to include copy protection and DRM for other media, including multimedia computer software on CD-ROMs, electronic license management, and encryption. The company's products include: “MacroSafe;” “SafeDisc;” “FlexLm;” “SafeAuthenticate;” “SafeCast;” “SafeWrap;” “SAM Solutions;” “GT Licensing;” “Cactus Data Shield.” |
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| Microsoft Corporation develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a range of software products, including scalable operation systems, server applications, worker productivity applications and software development tools. Microsoft's core DRM technology is “Windows Media Rights Manager,” an end-to-end19 system that supports the secure delivery of digital media content as it travels across the Internet and between devices. Rights Manager supports a broad array of distribution and business models, including real-time streaming of digital content. Product features include: secure packaging and distribution, flexible licensing rules, and the ability to upgrade and repair. Microsoft's “Digital Asset Server” is Microsoft's solution for electronic publishing. |
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| MediaSec Technologies develops and commercializes products and solutions based on its patented digital watermarking technology. MediaSec’s products include“MediaSignPrint ” (providing protection against the counterfeiting of documents such as bank notes, identity cards or credit cards); “MediaSignDigitalWatermark” (an authentication product for digital images and videos used with digital surveillance systems); “MediaTrustTrusted” (a product combining digital watermarking with digital signatures for verification of printed paper copies of digitally signed documents); and “SysCoP” (a copyright information protection product designed for multimedia content, still images, and audio). |
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| NDS provides conditional access, broadcast control software and products and services for the management, control and secure distribution of entertainment and information to television (satellite, terrestrial and cable) and personal computers. NDS’s “Synamedia” system, used to protect Video-on-Demand (VOD) over broadband networks using encryption technology, includes the “XTV Encryptor” (a content preparation station) and the “XTV Server” (ensuring that only authorized viewers can view encrypted VOD content) |
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| Ness Technologies is an information technology company specializing in the development, consulting and integration of software solutions. Working with television production companies in the United Kingdom, Ness Technologies developed “iRights,” a software module that helps television, publishing, film, music and other media entities manage their rights, contracts and royalties. |
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| On-Demand Distribution (OD2) enables record labels to sell music on- line by providing the secure fulfillment of their music content to chosen retailers. As an enabling technology for the music industry, OD2 manages a catalogue of music content from several record labels. |
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| OverDrive is a provider of technology services for the protection of digitized copyrighted works. The Company operates the Content Reserve digital rights clearinghouse and distribution service (www.contentreserve.com) that provides copyright protection and DRM services for over 30,000 works from approximately 300 commercial publishers. OverDrive also serves as a DRM service provider for a number of educational and digital content providers in the United States. The Company provides copyright management services to Internet college bookstores and educational web sites in the United States and abroad and deploys DRM technologies in connection with a broad range of materials used for educational purposes. |
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| Palm Digital Media (PDM) is a division of PalmSource, the software- licensing unit of Palm. PDM has developed several eBook products for the Palm operating system, including the Palm Reader for desktops and handheld devices. The Palm “Retail Encryption Server” is the centerpiece of Palm's DRM technology. The DRM system uses a hardware identification number, which has been assigned by the Palm Reader eBook application to a handheld or desktop computer. The Server uses the identification number to lock an eBook to a specific device. |
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| Philips Digital Networks provides end-to-end solutions incorporating high performance MPEG-2 compression and multiplexing for satellite, cable and terrestrial transmission systems. The Company’s technologies are applicable to broadcasting, enhanced and interactive TV for the home, as well as for Internet and mobile content delivery. Philips Digital Networks is developing audio/video streaming software, including MPEG-4 streaming video application software. The Company’s content delivery products incorporate secure conditional access, watermarking and DRM technologies. Philips Digital Networks also is a supplier of set-top boxes and home gateways. |
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| Phocis is a digital security company, providing services that control and manage the capture, processing and distribution of sensitive and confidential digital information. The Company’s “Secure Digital Exchange” (SDX) allows users to revoke information and offers persistent protection throughout the lifetime of a document. The Company’s “Secure Publishing Exchange” (SPX) is a DRM system that allows publishers to prepare, package and manage digital content in any format. |
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| Rainbow Technologies is a provider of digital content and transaction security solutions for the Internet and eCommerce. The company designs, develops, manufactures and sells anti-piracy, license management, distribution and tracking products, and satellite and network communications products using encryption technology. Rainbow’s products include secure web server acceleration solutions; antipiracy, and Internet software licensing and distribution solutions; public key infrastructure-based security solutions; voice, data and satellite information security, telecommunications and information security, authentication and USB-based web authentication keys. |
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| RealNetworks develops end-to-end solutions that allow a broad range of users to create, send and receive audio, video and other multimedia services over the Internet. The Company’s “Helix DRM” is a set of products for the secure licensing, delivery and rights management of digital media Helix DRM was designed to provide high-quality content delivery to trusted media players across all major platforms (including Internet media formats and standards-based formats such as MPEG-4) to multiple devices, including PCs, mobile devices, and home appliances. |
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| RSA Security is a provider of electronic security solutions. The company helps build secure, trusted foundations for electronic businesses through the use of its twofactor user authent ication, encryption, and public key management products and solutions. RSA offers a number of authentication products (employing software and hardware tokens, smart cards, and digital certificates) to ensure the authenticity of people, devices, and transactions. RSA’s “Web Access Management Solution” is designed to provide secure access to multiple based applications and services. RSA’s Developer Solutions offer a range of software components to secure data in any format, wired or wireless |
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| SCM Microsystems designs, develops and sells hardware, software and silicon that enables users to securely access digital content and services, including content and services that have been protected through digital encryption. SCM provides, among other products, reader technology for access control systems deployed on the digital television and PC platforms, including conditional access modules and interface technology used by digital television operators to secure access to encrypted digital television broadcasts for paying subscribers. SCM also provides smart card readers and interface technology used to control access to PCs, computer networks and the Internet to facilitate computer and network security and secure on- line transactions. |
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| SealedMedia is a DRM provider for publishers of all kinds of digital content (including text, images, audio and video) on the Internet. There are three software components to the Company’s “Sealed Media” solution: the “Sealer,” the “License Server,” and the “Unsealer.” The software components can be used to support digital content in a wide range of formats (including HTML, PDF, MP3, and MPEG-4). Access to sealed documents may be limited to authorized users and cease after a specified expiration date. Rights can be granted, changed or revoked at any time. |
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| SunnComm Technologies, a firm that develops technology to limit the unauthorized copying of music compact disks (CDs), was the first company to commercially release a content-protected CD. SunnComm’s “MediaCloQ” is a technology designed to limit unauthorized copying of optical media using a personal computer by introducing alterations in the control area of the CD. More recently, SunnComm introduced its “Media Max CD3” technology, which builds on the Microsoft Windows Media 9 Series Digital Media Platform. |
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| Sony Corporation is a diversified company operating in the motion picture, game, and electronics industries (including the development, design, manufacturing and sale of electronics equipment). Sony also manufactures and distributes recorded music and image-based software and is one of the world’s largest producers of compact discs. Although Sony’s “key2audio” copy control technology prevents computer playback, Sony offers other products that allow owners of original CDs to play music on a PC or MAC. More information on the key2audio technology is available at: http://www.key2audio.com. Sony's DRM and distribution technology, "OpenMG X," will be applicable to a growing number of network-connected devices, including PCs, OpenMG-related products, and PlayStation 2. Note: Sony of America, Koninklijke Philios Electronics N.V., and another investor recently acquired InterTrust Technologies, which is discussed above |
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| Spectra Systems is a developer of limited play CD, CD-ROM and DVD products for the entertainment, software, and advertising industries. The Company developed MediaCoat, a marking technology that allows the placement of text and graphics on the play side of CDs and DVDs without interfering with playback performance. |
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| Thomson (formerly Thomson Multimedia) provides technologies, systems, finished products and services to consumers and professionals in the entertainment and media industries. Through its digital media solutions, Thomson provides digital video networking systems for the secure delivery of content from the studio to the consumer. The Company also offers key applications and media management services that provide the tools for content owners, network operators, and consumers to manage, access and retrieve streaming entertainment, news, sports, and information. |
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| Savantech is a provider of digital distribut ion management services to media and entertainment companies. Savantech’s “Photon Commerce” suite of products allows users to create a single unifying view of metadata and assets stored in disparate repositories across multiple divisions. Savantech’s “P hoton Rights Management” product provides intellectual property owners with a convenient mechanism for searching and requesting rights. |
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| TTR Technologies develops anti-piracy technologies that prevent illegal reproduction of software, music, games, and other media for the software and entertainment industries. TTR designs and develops digital security technologies that provide copy protection for electronic content distributed on optical media and over the Internet. TTR's “SafeAudio” software, which the company incorporates into encoding systems for optical media, adds to audio CDs, CD-ROMs, and DVD-ROMs an indelible digital fingerprint that prevents unauthorized consumer copying or professional remastering |
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| Wave Systems develops, produces and markets hardware and software-based digital security products for the Internet and e-commerce using encryption technology. The centerpiece of Wave Systems is the “Embassy Trust System,” a trusted computing infrastruc ture that combines client hardware and software and a back-office infrastructure that manages its security functions. The client hardware consists of the “EMBASSY 2100” security chip, which may be embedded in such user devices as computer keyboards, smart card readers, PC motherboards, PC and/or cable modems, personal digital assistants, cable set-top boxes and a wide variety of other user devices |
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| Verance Corporation provides systems for content management, airplay verification and connectivity solutions for the entertainment, media, wireless telecommunications and Internet industries. Verance also develops advanced audio watermarking (including the standard for SDMI Phase 1 and DVD-Audio) and wireless communications technologies |
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| VeriSign provides digital trust services used by web sites, enterprises and individuals to conduct secure communications and electronic commerce on- line. The Company’s code signing digital IDs (or certificates) allow content publishers, including software developers, to digitally sign their content including software and macros for secure delivery over the Internet. VeriSign’s “Authentication Services” allow users to authenticate the identities of consumers, professionals and business entities at the beginning of a trust relationship for on- line transactions. Verisign also provides managed public key services |
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