IBM Cryptolope

Cryptolope Live! enables customers to build security-rich e-business solutions for exchanging, distributing, buying and selling information or digital assets over the Internet. It allows customers to enforce rights management for their distributed information by applying access controls and flexible business rules to their content delivered to end-users. The original Cryptolope container was an envelope or package which used cryptography to protect its contents from unauthorized access or alteration. Today's Cryptolope Live! software is more than simply a container; it is an information object.

Experience highlights

In 1995, while working at IBM, I invented the technology and framework underlying the Cryptolope Cashier, which provides the e-commerce, payment, and tax calculation capabilities to the Cryptolope commercial offering. My work for this technology resulted in a US Patent grant to IBM (US Patent 6038548) that was eventually acquired by eBay, and then Paypal, before expiring in 2017.

Cryptolope components

Cryptolope Builder builds dynamic, extensible, optionally-encrypted “objects” which contain digital content and the business rules for the use of that content.

Cryptolope Clearing Center provides back end processing, manages the exchange of encryption keys, provides an interface to the Cryptolope Cashier, and provides event logging.

Cryptolope Player the runtime system required to run Cryptolope objects, it is available as a Java applet for embedding within a Web page or as a separate application which may be downloaded and installed on a user’s desktop. Includes standard extensions for Cryptolope objects, including the IBM HTML Trusted Viewer, the transaction envelope, and the Clearing Center interface.

Cryptolope Cashier provides the framework for integrating payment and tax calculation programs for real time credit card transaction processing.

Review the following market survey and evaluation report from NASA to learn more about IBM Cryptolope (pp. 19 - 26).

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