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Internet and web-browsers is a wonderful technology that has revolutionized
how information can be accessed in a way that was unthinkable just a few years
back. Unfortunately, security solutions have not progressed in the same
pace. An example of this are Internet credit-card transactions that
essentially is just a copy of the manual methods introduced some 30-40 years
ago! Purple(tm) addresses another problem that so far has not gotten an
acceptable solution: How representatives from one organization can authenticate
to partner organizations' web-servers.
X-OBI's Purple(tm) is a combination of industry standards and innovation that
limits the current "explosion" of user-IDs and passwords that plauges both users
and organizations. Below is a simpified scheme showing how
Purple(tm) could be applied to a business-to-business situation where purchasers
belonging to one organization can securely authenticate to selling
organizations' web-sites:
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