Thierry Autret
Senior Security Expert, Sligos (France)
For years legal business transactions have been settled using trusted entities that the parties had chosen to call to witness their transaction. Transposed to the electronic era, these entities are now called using the generic name " Trusted Third Parties ". This concept is not new per se, and such entities exist for many years. Nevertheless, if tomorrow on-line electronic commerce takes its promised place, they will be a keystone of the secure exchanges. Concurrently, this security that can only be achieved using cryptographic techniques, should be generalized through these Trusted Third Parties. Biography
Thierry Autret is an expert/consultant in IT security and applied cryptography at the Payment Services Division of SLIGOS France. After spending many years at TRANSPAC, the French X.25 Network, he joined SLIGOS in 1988 in the Acquisition and Authorization Management of banking card transaction where he designed the new secure cryptographic device for the PIN protection. Thierry Autret is a technical expert for AFNOR and ISO in the Banking and Security working groups. He is active in the works on electronic commerce security at the Groupement Inter-Industrie sur les Autoroutes de lInformation (Business Group on Information Highways). Thierry Autret contributes together with the SCSSI (French Central Information System Security Agency), to the specifications of a technical and legal architecture of a French Trusted Third Party.
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Created: 16 April 1996