CertCo

CertCo, Inc., was a financial cryptography startup spun out of Bankers Trust in the 1990s. The company pioneered a risk management approach to cryptographic services. It had offices in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offered three main public key infrastructure (PKI) based products: an Identity Warranty system (tracking and insuring reliance on identity assertions in financial transactions); an electronic payment system (internally known as Acquire); and an Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) responder for validating X.509 public key certificates. It went out of business in Spring 2002 never having found a wide market for its products despite filing a number of patents and developing new technology.

CertCo, Inc.
IndustryFinancial cryptography
FoundedMarch 1994 (1994-03) in New York City, New York
Founders
  • Frank Sudia
  • Peter Freund
Defunct2002 (2002)
FateDissolved
ParentBankers Trust (1994–1996)
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