E-business, business-to-business, and E-commerce are words that emulate the most common uses for thernInternet of today and tomorrow. The challenges of using the Internet, as experienced early in the 1980s withrndesktop computing, is the assurance of the accuracy, credibility, and speed with which each transaction isrnconcluded via the Internet. The global network of to day's business world deals with the passage of informationrnbetween parties in the conduct of business]. Within that context, each transmission to support a transactionrnmust guarantee the identities of the parties, guarantee the information passed has not be altered, guaranteernthe confidentiality of the data in transit, and protect against denial of the transaction's intent by one of thernparties. The non-repudiation of each transaction must be secured. To meet these exacting demands, therncapabilities of encryption hardware and software are paramount to guaranteeing transaction security.
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