Security in e-commerce, e-government, e-contracting boosted by Tamino XML Server 4.1

Electronic communication in e-commerce, e-government and e-contracting has just been made a whole lot more secure and user-friendly with Security Extensions, the latest component for digital signatures added to Tamino XML Server 4.1.

Electronic documents - unlike printed ones - are relatively easy to manipulate. Although there is as yet no definitive solution to this problem, Software AG now has the technology to discover whether, and if so, when, an electronic document has been modified without permission. This is 'digital signature' technology, and it allows authors to sign their documents and check them later for changes.

According to Software AG South Africa manager, Joe Curran, Tamino XML Server is Software AG's solution for signature validation and archiving. It stores XML documents natively in XML and verifies signatures during the database storage transaction for the signed document. By checking the validity of XML signatures, Tamino XML Server allows users to verify a document's authenticity.

Tamino XML Security Extensions allows users to confirm the content of documents, such as electronic orders, by appending their digital signature, which is essential for transactions conducted over the Internet to be considered legally binding. It also automatically checks whether an electronic document has been given a digital signature, he said.

Curran pointed out that Tamino XML Security Extensions can be used in a whole range of applications: in e-commerce (virtual department stores or auction houses), e-government (completion of administrative processes over the Internet), and especially e-contracting. Tamino XML Security Extensions enables organisations to conduct legally binding business processes seamlessly over the Internet - this is particularly relevant for companies that conclude contracts electronically.

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Tamino XML Security Extensions make electronic communication between business partners much more convenient. E-commerce, e-government and e-contracting transactions can now be carried out securely thanks to Tamino XML Security Extensions, which not only verifies a document's authenticity, but also meets non-repudiation requirements, he said.

A Developer Community download for Tamino XML Security Extensions is available at http://developer.softwareag.com/tamino/download.htm on 12 March.