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CP Directory Server for GoI’s digital certificates repository

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BANGALORE: Critical Path, Inc., a company dealing in Internet Communications,

has announced that its CP Directory Server has been chosen by the Government of

India, for the repository of digital certificates for providing Internet

services to the country's communications industry.

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Critical Path won this as part of a consortium of technology companies headed

by ICICI Infotech, a worldwide technology solutions company and a systems

integrator for the Finance sector in India. The winning consortium also included

SmartTrust, which will be supplying the security and certificate management

applications.

The CP Directory Server will be used as the repository for the National Root

Certifying Authority, which will ultimately enable companies and individuals to

use digital certificates to provide legally binding signatures for secure

Internet transactions.

The Directory Server provides a central, unified data repository for user

profiles, digital certificates and other critical data. Deployed in some of the

most demanding IT infrastructures in the world, this state-of-the-art directory

handles large quantities of data, provides lightening-fast response times and

offers the industry's highest levels of scalability and performance.

CP Directory Server deals in mission-critical environments, including

corporate intranets/extranets, online banking services, Internet postal services

and government security systems. Furthermore, the CP Directory Server is a PKI

directory, storing millions of digital certificates and facilitating millions of

daily e-business transactions for organizations around the globe.

The CP Directory Server resides on the Management layer of Critical Path's

Communications Platform and is a core component of Critical Path's complete

range of Identity Management solutions. Critical Path delivers Identity

Management solutions, such as core directory services, unified user management,

single sign-on and public key infrastructure.

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