EC CERTIFICATE SECURITY PROVIDED BY NEW ALLIANCE

Belgian certification authority GlobalSign NV, Zergo Holdings Plc, the UK-based information security product vendor, and PricewaterhouseCoopers the consultancy service are to form a Certification Service Provider (CSP) for the European Commission. The management consortium is to be known as FP5-CSP (Fifth Framework Program). The alliance will provide e-commerce within the European Commission with additional security. Typically, the recipient of the electronic message will know the name of the sender.