Electronic communications and transactions are vulnerable to various security threats. Attacks against privacy of data and traffic (e.g., traffic eavesdropping attacks), unauthorized access to the data, attacks against the authenticity (e.g. impersonation attacks), and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are among considerable examples. Cryptography-based solutions are considered inevitable in securing such environments.

Key management is one of the most critical issues in all methods attempting to provide secure transactions. Nowadays, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) based methods are being used as the world-wide accepted and standardized key management solutions making provable security available for electronic communications.  PKI based solutions are considered as the main basis for reliance and trust on all vital financial transactions, while implying less administration overhead.

ParsSign is an integrated security solution comprising a set of software components, hardware components, and administrative/technical security guidance to facilitate institutes/companies having mission-critical applications with a PKI-enabled secure environment.

Application Areas

Financial and banking systems (E-banking, E-commerce)

Training and informatics systems (E-learning)

Health care systems (E-Health)

Governmental and NGO systems (E-Government)

Personal use

Products and Services

Public key digital certificate services for different application areas, including e-mail security, database security, code signing, secure authentication, windows logon, and secure protocols (SSL/TLS, IPSec, SET, ...)

Custom certificates for applications.

Certificate Authority (CA) and peripheral components

CA services in the form of managed PKI

Secure authentication solutions on web

Secure authentication solutions for applications

security library for programmers, including cryptography and secure authentication features

Key management tools and products

Smartcard and USB security token integrated solutions

Software license control solutions

Usage Cases

Securing communication channels in networks (HTTPS, FTPS, POP3S,…)

Establishing Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

Secure authentication

Single sign-on Authentication

Securing office-automation systems

Securing document-management systems

Cryptography-based access control

Providing data integrity using digital signature

Secure e-mail

Secure software distribution using digital signed codes

Securing custom applications

 

Examples Of Applications

VPN: Cisco routers, Separ firewall, Netscreen firewall

Code Signing: Java applet, MS ActiveX, DLL

Application/Web Servers : Tomcat, Apache, Weblogic, IBM Websphere, MS ISS

Email Servers: Qmail, MS Exchange, MS OWA

DBSM: Oracle, MS SQL Server

Directory: MS Active Directory, LDAP

Email Clients: MS Outlook family, MS OWA, Netscape Messenger, Mozilla Mailer, Thunderbird

Document Publishing: MS Office Family (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, InfoPath,…), Adobe Acrobat Family

Web Browsers: MS IE, Netscape, FireFox, Mozilla,Opera

 

Technical Specifications

X.509 PKI certificates and CRLs

Cryptographic keys: 128 bits to 8192 bits

Supported algorithms: SHA1, MD5, 3DES, RSA, DH

Two-factor authentication for PKI components

Smartcard support

USB security token support

Operating system compatibility with MS Windows family and Unix-based systems

SDK available for different programming languages and environments

Compatible with communication protocols

Benefits