GRAPHCO TECHNOLOGIES, INC. solutions for secure communications include biometric technology combined with public key infrastructure (PKI) services to authenticate identity for secure entry to powerful data management tools and network resources.

Authentication/Identification
Network
PKI Management
Encryption

Authentication/Identification

Authentication is the process of verifying whether an individual is who s/he claims to be. To authenticate identity, an individual typically has had to present a card, badge, password or pin number.

The VoicePass™ Speaker Recognition system, by contrast, uses text-independent voice biometric technology to permit an individual to verify his or her identity by simply saying anything.

VoicePass™ Speaker Recognition system works by building and storing an individual's unique voice pattern acquired from a few phrases the user supplies at the time of enrollment in the system. A speaker's voice pattern is an imprint of the parameters of an utterance, capturing the uniqueness specific to an individual's voice. By comparing a template file to individual's fresh, live phrases, VoicePass™ is able to authenticate that a speaker is who s/he claims to be.

Network

The currently password - protected technology allows users within well-defined populations to authenticate their identity in order to access LAN resources in one step.

VoicePass™ biometric technology facilitates secure entry single sign-on without the necessity of remembering and updating passwords. VoicePass™ Speaker Recognition system authenticates a user's identity by creating a template of that individual's voice pattern, and comparing the template to live speech. Because VoicePass™ is text-independent, a speaker can say virtually anything when ready to validate his or her identity to gain access to network resources.

Once a speaker has accessed the network, he or she can use secure network services. For example, GRAPHCO TECHNOLOGIES' secure data center, The Bastille, provides the means for users to create secure Web-based communication such as Web-email, Web-chat, Web-based bulletin boards-electronic conferencing between peers that creates effective and efficient communications to a secure network of users, with a well-defined set of interests. GRAPHCO TECHNOLOGIES, INC. issues the keys to this community to authorized users only.

PKI Management

Public key infrastructure (PKI) management involves a collection of standards, encryption methods, and key management procedures, based on public key encryption that define digital certificates or digital I.D.'s for secure transactions and communications that occur over private networks, and public networks like the Internet. PKI-based systems provide such functions as authentication, certification, non-repudiation, and other security services

GRAPHCO TECHNOLOGIES, INC. manages a PKI-compliant certificate authority server in our Department of Defense - standard secure facilities-such as the Bastille secure data center-to provide digital certification. GRAPHCO provides the certification authority for all digital certificates that we issue to a closed community. Graphco's digital certificates are compliant with ANSI (American National Standardization Institute) standards such as X.509. GRAPHCO TECHNOLOGIES's PKI management services include:

Authentication Management
Certificate Issuing 
Certificate Management
Key Management
Key Distribution
Certificate Distribution
Access Policy Management

GRAPHCO TECHNOLOGIES' PKI management includes an extra layer of security using biometrics. The VoicePass™ biometric security, combined with PKI tools, ported to an E-Commerce engine (Advanced Logic Systems's AskAlbert.com) and secured by The Bastille database allows Graphco to announce and to provide a complete solution for Internet secured transactions with biometric entry to secure credit cards databases. This powerful combination of technologies reduces the concern of purchases through the Internet and unauthorized database entry.

Encryption

Encryption is the combination of algorithms necessary to convert data into unreadable form. Encryption allows information to travel securely across public and private networks. It works within PKI (public-key infrastructure) to ensure the confidentiality of data. Public key encryption uses two keys, one to encrypt a message as it's sent across a communication network and another to decrypt the message once it reaches its destination. GRAPHCO TECHNOLOGIES uses public key encryption to authenticate communication parties each time they engage in a data exchange, for example, when a consumer transmits credit card information on an e-commerce website.

Instead of password-protected methods, I.D. authentication through PKI encryption methods can couple with a biometric system to verify the identity of users. Combined with PKI encryption, VoicePass™ Speaker Recognition system eliminates the multiple levels of authentication currently necessary to carry out consumer or business-to-business transactions on the Internet or on secure private communities.

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