CoSign Digital Signatures Provide D-Trust with Innovative Solutions for Electronic Signatures

D-TRUST GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bundesdruckerei GmbH, situated in Berlin, today announced that it will be providing software products and workflow solutions from ARX, a leading provider of digital signatures (standard electronic signatures) and information assurance solutions. The partnership underscores D-Trust’s claim to integrate highly-secure and easy-to-use software solutions in PKI projects.

Additionally, the CoSign® product line will now support all D-TRUST signature cards and certificates, thus facilitating the flexible extension of paperless business processes, reducing costs and increasing security. CoSign works with all major applications and document formats, including Microsoft® Word, Excel®, Outlook®, Adobe® PDF, TIFF, AutoCAD®, InfoPath®, Lotus Forms and many others.

Complimenting its digital signature capacity, CoSign also provides graphical signatures embedded into documents, along with the PKCS#7 digital signature block. Moreover, CoSign supports commonly used strong authentication devices, client and server software. These include RADIIUS-based OTP systems, USB tokens, Smart cards, and Biometrics devices. Support for mobile devices and software-only authentication solutions will be announced soon.

In addition to the numerous satisfied customers from the realms of B2B and B2C all over the world, many international companies and authorities have implemented ARX CoSign technologies. Among recent customers are the Roman Senate, the Dutch Supreme Court, and Gas Natural.

"Our co-initiative with D-TRUST, a highly-regarded and leading European trust center, helps both ARX and D-Trust enhance their market positions as leading providers of enterprise digital signature solutions in Europe in general and Germany specifically," said Dov Sharon, VP Business Development, Intl., ARX. He added, "Exhibiting with our distributor, Apsec, in the same hall, strengthens the CoSign brand and enhances market awareness as to how business processes can be aided significantly by comprehensive solutions like CoSign."

About D-TRUST

Founded in 1998, D-TRUST GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bundesdruckerei, develops and markets high-security products for electronic signatures. The accredited trust center is situated in Bundesdruckerei's high-security value printing building. D-TRUST offers interoperable and approved signature products and the corresponding consultation services, as well as the entire spectrum of trust center services for both business customers and legal authorities. Furthermore, D-TRUST is currently the only German trust center authorised to issue both qualified certificates and qualified certificates with voluntary supplier accreditation.

For more information, please visit www.d-trust.net.

CoSign is ARX's digital signature solution that allows users to digitally sign multiple document types, records, files, forms, and electronic transactions from their desktop or via a zero-footprint technology using any Web browser. By using standard digital signature technology, CoSign produces a portable signature record for every signature it captures. The portable signature format – CoSign®PSF™ enables partners, customers, and prospects to retain and verify the proof of identity, intent, and transaction integrity over the life of the record without any proprietary software. CoSign signatures are being used by hundreds of thousands of users in Enterprise, B2B and B2C processes, to learn why please see our white papers and product details at www.arx.com/products/cosign_moreinfo.php.

About The Digital Signature Company - ARX (Algorithmic Research)

ARX is a global provider of digital signature solutions for the life sciences, healthcare, government, engineering, and manufacturing organizations. ARX has over 20 years of experience assisting businesses to cost effectively secure, streamline, and scale their business processes and transactions. The company specializes in enabling organizations of any size to scale digital signature and security solutions at the lowest TCO while retaining proper control mechanisms that are required by legislation, regulation and industry best practice. For more information, please visit www.arx.com.

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