Entrust contributes essential PKI technology component to open-source community

[Posted July 25, 2007 by cook]

Entrust, Inc. has announced the release of its public key infrastructure technology to the open-source community. "To support that goal, the layered security expert is contributing public key infrastructure (PKI) technology to the open-source community through Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the Mozilla Foundation. Specifically, Entrust will supply its certificate revocation list distribution points (CRL-DP) patent 5,699,431 to Sun under a royalty-free license for incorporation of that capability into the Mozilla open-source libraries."