The National Institute of Standards and Technology has begun a multi-year effort to move its paper-based practices online and enable the agency to use electronic signatures. Because these processes require employee and administrative signatures, NIST will create a public key . . .
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has begun a multi-year effort to move its paper-based practices online and enable the agency to use electronic signatures. Because these processes require employee and administrative signatures, NIST will create a public key infrastructure (PKI), designed to guarantee the authenticity of each electronic signature. Using a PKI solution from Entrust Technologies Inc., a Plano, Texas, security software developer, NIST will assign a "public key," or special identifier, to every employee. The public key will authenticate any electronic signature, thus eliminating the need for NIST employees to print out and sign forms.

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