Surety, Inc Releases Digital Notary® Service SDK for Linux
Reston, VA, and Westlake Village, CA, June 5, 2000 -- Surety, Inc, the leading provider of digital notarization services, announced today that its Digital Notary® Software Development Kit (SDK) is now available to run on version 6.0 of the Red Hat Linux operating system. Digital Notary Service also runs on Windows 95/98/NT. The Digital Notary SDK may be downloaded free of charge from the company\'s web site at http://www.surety.com.
\"It\'s important that we offer support on multiple operating systems. Making our software available on the Linux platform will make it easier for our customers to take advantage of the reliability and versatility of Linux as well being able to easily integrate the security of Digital Notary Service into specific applications,\" said Barry Libenson, executive vice president, Surety, Inc.
According to International Data Corporation (IDC), Linux held a 17.2 percent share of the operating system market in 1998, with shipments of Linux increasing 212 percent from 1997. The Linux port further demonstrates Surety\'s commitment to provide support for popular operation systems making it easier than ever to incorporate Digital Notary Service within applications. Developers can use Surety\'s SDK to integrate the notary service into applications making it transparent to users that their data and documents are being notarized, securing corporate data and protecting intellectual property.
About Digital Notary Service
Digital Notary Service notarizes any digital content by creating a small digital fingerprint of the target data and sending it to Surety, Inc to be registered and timestamped. A unique Digital Notary Record is then sent back to the requesting client for later use in validating the notarization. Individuals, companies and governments using Surety\'s Digital Notary Service can be assured their proprietary data is protected because a digital fingerprint is a one-way identifier-no part of the original data record or file can be reconstructed from its fingerprint.
Offering unprecedented and irrefutable record security, Digital Notary Service protects electronic records in legal settings; reliably dates inventions to establish intellectual property rights; guarantees tamperproof records for regulatory compliance; prevents insider fraud, and; validates the authenticity of electronic records created by e-commerce transactions.
Digital Notary SDK
Digital Notary SDK (Software Developers Kit) is a collection of tools, libraries and documentation for use by software developers in building Digital Notary capability into custom applications. The SDK is available for the Windows 95/98/NT and Linux operating systems.
Previously available for the C++ language, the SDK now supports Automation Objects from Visual Basic and Visual J++. Digital Notary SDK for corporate IS and third-party developers is available free of charge on the Surety Web site http://www.surety.com.