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