Project Objectives, Summary Description and Anticipated Results:

• foster the development of European security technology for the purpose of securing the growing application of open networks, as for instance the internet, for administration, e-commerce, intra-organisation communication, health care applications and research;
• promote the availablity of technically compatible and interconnectable public key infrastructures (PKIs) which are necessary to guarantee the authenticity and validity of public keys in use.

Users of open networks are increasingly aware of potential security problems and are increasingly delaying possible open network applications due to security fears. Another reason for the slow deployment of security technology is that users are increasingly seeking for integrated and multi-purpose solutions. Applications which appear to be closed and isolated today will have communication needs tomorrow. Security elements like digital signatures are very hard, if ever, to pass through application gateways without reencryption. It is therefore vital that basic security mechanisms, formats and protocols are identical accross many applications. This would give applications the potential to communicate with other applications without loosing the security elements.

Therefore, for the purpose of verification and demonstration, the ICE-CAR project has selected eight independent applications which will be equipped with compatible security technology in order to fulfil exactly the requirements given above. The common ground of all these applications is the use of public key technology in the same way, but from different technology providers. Interoperability and cross-certification issues are particularly of interest in this project. The ICE-CAR security technology and PKI will be used by other Telematics, ESPRIT and ACTS projects and several national ones.

Major Validation Sites:

Organisation	City/Town + Postal Code	Region	Country
Uni-C	Copenhagen	DK001	DK
Uninett	Trondheim		NO
FCR	Barcelona	ES51	ES
Universities in Spain			ES
TU Graz	Graz	AT22	AT
Austrian PTA Customers			AT
CCI	Meppen	DE94	DE
Medical Professionals and Hospitals in Germany			DE
Politecnico Torino	Torino	IT11	IT
Professionals in the Piedmont Region		IT11	IT
OPCO	Scarmagno	IT11	IT
University of Salford	Manchester	UK82	GB
SMEs in the Manchester Region		UK82	GB
DRA	Malvern	UK55	GB

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