Note that there's no mention of encryption or confidentiality. ssa.gov gets network connectivity via BBNplanet. Adam John Gilmore wrote: | Date: Tue, 14 Jan 97 10:06:55 EST | From: John.T.Sabo@ssa.gov | Message-Id: <9700148532.AA853265294@ccsmtpgw2.ssa.gov> | To: members@lists.Commerce.Net | Subject: Test Opportuity for CommerceNet Member Small Companies | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | This message was addressed to: members@lists.commerce.net | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | To CommerceNet Members Who Are Small Employers: | | CommerceNet member companies who are small employers (approximately 30 | employees) are invited to participate this month with the Social Security | Administration and PitneyBowes, Inc. in an important proof-of-concept | project in | which the Social Security Administration will accept digitally-signed W-2 and | W-3 data via the Internet, with PitneyBowes issuing test software and | public key | certificates to participating employers. (I mentioned this test at the | December | CommerceNet Members' meeting.) | | Participation will require completion of a field test agreement with SSA, | submission of a request for certification by PitneyBowes, and installation of | software on a Windows PC which will enable the generation of a signature key | pair as well as software which will generate, sign and transmit the wage | data to | Social Security. The software also produces W-2 paper forms for | distribution to | employees. If a company already uses a software product to create W-2's, the | output file can be used for this test. (Please note that the test is not | designed to evaluate all aspects of public key cryptography - for example, no | certification practice statement has been developed.) | | If you are interested in participating in this important public/private sector | test of digital signature wage reporting, please contact me as soon as | possible | and I'll arrange for Mr. Chuck Liptz, SSA's Project Manager, to contact you | immediately to provide additional details. (Chuck can also be reached | directly | at (410) 965-7057 or <chuck.liptz@ssa.gov>. | | John Sabo | Social Security Administration | (410) 965-1550 | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | James M. Galvin galvin@commerce.net | CommerceNet +1 410.203.2707 | 3209-A Corporate Court FAX +1 410.203.2709 | Ellicott City, MD 21042 http://www.commerce.net/ | http://www.eff.org/blueribbon http://www.eff.org/goldkey | -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume