Comodo Encryption Journal

Comodo Inc., based in Jersey City, NJ, with additional offices in the UK, Japan, and Israel, has established itself as the second largest High Assurance Certification Authority, a market that provides SSL certificates to Internet businesses. Trailing clear industry leader Verisign, Comodo has nevertheless gained marketshare over the past nine months, according to the UK-based, Internet tracking company Netcraft. Comodo now has 16% of the SSL market, compared with Verisign’s 71%, and has gained 2 percentage points over the past nine months. The market itself grew by about 8% in this period, according to Comodo. “The SSL protocol, when delivered via an efficient and cost effective High Assurance authentication system continues to prove itself as an effective ubiquitous solution to the issue of privacy on the Internet”, said Melih Abdulhayoglu, CEO a... (more)

Innovating Staging of Two-Factor Authentication Succeeds for Rhode Island Bank

To prevent online fraud, financial institutions that offer online banking are required by the Federal Financial Insitutions Examination Council (FFIEC) to double-check that the person logging in to the system is a valid customer. When BankNewport in Rhode Island adopted a Two-Factor authentication plan, its concern was to make the transition as easy as possible on its customers. In addition to requiring online customers to use a password, the bank chose to install digital certificates from Comodo on each customer's computer. The process looked simple: the first time the customer tr... (more)

Online Encryption: Roots Are Showing

Jersey City, NJ, December 15, 2009 - In X.509 encryption, discriminating buyers check to be sure that certificate roots are well-protected. Certificate owners also check the distribution of the roots: can they be found in as many of the major browsers as possible? Owners aim for widespread distribution across all browsers. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificates allow computer users to encrypt information, scrambling it so that only someone with access to the certificate owner's key can unscramble it. The key itself is scrambled, as is the key used to scramble it, and so on ... (more)

Hushmail Teams Up with Comodo to Provide SSL Certificates

Comodo Inc, a global leader in Identity and Trust Assurance Management solutions has announced that it has secured an exclusive agreement to provide Hushmail; the worlds first secure web-based email service, with the PKI infrastructure needed to supply SSL certificates to its client base. The agreement provides Hushmail with the immediate ability to sell their own branded SSL Certificates and to integrate the new certificate offering into their existing customer product portfolio. Comodo will operate the back end issuance and validation infrastructure. Ben Cutler, CEO of Hush Commu... (more)

Comodo Code Signing Certificate Supports Mozilla Standards

Comodo code-signing certificates enable developers to sign Mozilla extensions or "Add-ons" for a wide variety of different operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Mozilla applications recognize XPIs as "trusted" when they are signed with a Comodo Code-Signing certificate. XPI (pronounced "Zippy") is short for "Cross Platform Install." XPI enables Developers to create installer modules for their programs meant to enhance Mozilla applications such as Firefox, Thunderbird, Sea Monkey and Sunbird. Comodo Code-Signing certificates verify and authenticate the ent... (more)