Feds Web Crypto
anonymous-remailer at shell.portal.com
anonymous-remailer at shell.portal.com
Mon May 20 18:17:48 PDT 1996
Washington Post, May 20, 1996
Feds on the Web
Federal agencies' efforts to link up with the citizenry over
the World Wide Web take a step forward today. Officials plan
to announce a pilot program in which 1,000 to 2,000 people
will try their hands at secure Web transactions with federal
agencies. It's set to start later this month.
The vision for the "Paperless Transactions for the Public
Project": a taxpayer files a return to the Internal Revenue
Service over Web links that use advanced cryptography to
confirm to the agency that the return's really coming from the
right party. Or, a retiree goes into a Social Security
Administration computer to check benefit information.
VIPs, civil servants and ordinary folks are to be issued
special "key cards" to take part in the test, which will use
cryptography from Frontier Technologies Corp., a Wisconsin
networking company. Officials promise the vision is not that
far away.
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