Enables NRC to speed
service to customers and comply with Government Paperwork Elimination
Act
RSA® CONFERENCE, San Francisco, CA - April 11, 2001 - VeriSign,
Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of Internet trust services,
today announced that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has
selected VeriSign's managed digital certificate services to create a
secure e-filing system for conducting official agency business. The
system enables NRC nuclear reactor licensees and other customers to
digitally sign and securely submit regulatory documents over the Internet
to the NRC, and will also help NRC be among the first Federal agencies
to comply with the Government Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA). GPEA
requires that all Executive-branch Federal agencies makes their forms
available online and accept them online with appropriate electronic
signatures by October 2003.
"This e-filing solution has helped us migrate
our business processes online to deliver faster and more cost-effective
services to our licensees," said John Skoczlas, the EIE (Electronic
Information Exchange) Project Manager, NRC. "VeriSign's managed
digital certificate service was easy to deploy and provides us control
over issuing certificates to our customers without having to build and
maintain an expensive infrastructure. As stated in the NRC's Vision
Statement, NRC's actions should be such that the public, those it regulates,
and other stakeholders in the national and international nuclear community
have the utmost respect for and confidence in the NRC."
The NRC’s e-filing system uses VeriSign’s managed
digital certificate services in conjunction with the Internet Commerce
System™ from PureEdge Solutions to implement the secure online filing
capability. Internet Commerce System enables filers to use a master
XML cover form to attach virtually any type of document, digitally sign
both the cover form and the attached document and securely submit them
via the Internet to an NRC web server protected with a VeriSign web
server digital certificate. Using the filer’s digital certificate, the
NRC can authenticate the identity of the sender and ensure that the
documents have not been changed. The unique XML document format provided
by PureEdge ensures that not only the submitted data cannot be tampered
with, but the entire document’s presentation and structure as well.
Overall the process provided by VeriSign and PureEdge provides the necessary
security to assure both the NRC and its filers that sensitive documents
can be securely filed over the Internet.
"With the capability to digitally sign their
electronic submissions, NRC licensees can ease their workflow and speed
up their filing process without compromising security," said Nicholas
Piazzola, vice president of Government Markets for VeriSign. "By
distributing digital certificates to nuclear reactor licensees and other
key customers, the NRC becomes one of the first Federal Agencies to
implement a secure e-filing solution to meet GPEA requirements."
VeriSign's managed digital certificate services
provide maximum flexibility, performance, and scalability with the highest
availability and security. Customers can cost-effectively establish
a customized public key infrastructure (PKI ) for issuing digital certificates
throughout their enterprise without the expense of designing, staffing
and maintaining their own infrastructure. Powered by VeriSign's robust,
high-availability certificate processing services, the solution enables
faster deployment and lower operating costs while providing an open
standards-based platform provide enterprises with full control over
the digital certificate authentication, issuance and lifecycle management
process.
About the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The mission of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is to regulate
the Nation's civilian use of byproduct, source, and special nuclear
materials to ensure adequate protection of public health and safety,
to promote the defense and security and to protect the environment.
The NRC's scope of responsibility includes regulation of commercial
nuclear power plants; research, test, and training reactors; fuel cycle
facilities; medical, academic, and industrial uses of nuclear materials;
and the transport. Storage , and disposal of nuclear materials and wastes.
About VeriSign
VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq:VRSN) is the leading provider of trusted infrastructure
services to Web sites, enterprises, electronic commerce service providers
and individuals. The company's domain name, digital certificate and
payment services provide the critical Web identity, authentication and
transaction infrastructure that online businesses require to conduct
secure e-commerce and communications. VeriSign's services are available
through its Web site (www.verisign.com)
or through its direct sales force and reseller partners around the world.
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of 1934. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could
cause VeriSign's actual results to differ materially from those stated
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under its current business structure, uncertainty of future revenue
and profitability and potential fluctuations in quarterly operating
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