In brief: Mastercard to deploy PKI technology

MasterCard International in the near future will be deploying public-key infrastructure technology from Baltimore Technologies for the card-processor association's SecureCode cardholder authentication. Bruce Rutherford, vice president of e-business and emerging technologies at MasterCard International, says the Baltimore UniCERT software will be used for security in various ways. These include PKI in smart cards, the 3D Secure program for Web-based authentication between the merchant's Web sites and the card issuer using a Web plug-in.

Separately, Visa International and the Bank of China in Hong Kong plan to start using a two-way messaging technology from Mobileway for secure authentication of a cardholder making a transaction on a mobile phone.

BEA Systems is offering free one-year-trial development licenses for its WebLogic Enterprise Platform, a package that bundles a number of BEA's programming and integration tools. The free trial offer, announced last week during BEA's annual user conference in Orlando, is part of a new tiered-pricing program, dubbed BEA dev2dev Subscriptions. Trial users are offered a 12-month software license allowing five IP connections, for nonproduction use only. BEA offers two higher subscription levels.

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MasterCard International in the near future will be deploying public-key infrastructure technology from Baltimore Technologies for the card-processor association's SecureCode cardholder authentication. Bruce Rutherford, vice president of e-business and emerging technologies at MasterCard International, says the Baltimore UniCERT software will be used for security in various ways. These include PKI in smart cards, the 3D Secure program for Web-based authentication between the merchant's Web sites and the card issuer using a Web plug-in.

Separately, Visa International and the Bank of China in Hong Kong plan to start using a two-way messaging technology from Mobileway for secure authentication of a cardholder making a transaction on a mobile phone.

BEA Systems is offering free one-year-trial development licenses for its WebLogic Enterprise Platform, a package that bundles a number of BEA's programming and integration tools. The free trial offer, announced last week during BEA's annual user conference in Orlando, is part of a new tiered-pricing program, dubbed BEA dev2dev Subscriptions. Trial users are offered a 12-month software license allowing five IP connections, for nonproduction use only. BEA offers two higher subscription levels.

The Platform Edition subscription, priced at $600, includes technical support, quarterly software updates shipped on CD, a one-year subscription to WebLogic Developer's Journal and trial software from BEA partners. BEA's Tools Edition subscription, which costs $4,660, includes everything in the Platform edition plus a license for Borland Software's JBuilder 8, WebLogic Edition Java applications development software. The Platform and Tools Edition subscriptions do not expire. Dev2dev subscriptions are available here.

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