Sydney, Australia, April 30 -- SunSoft will shortly release a workable cash-on-the-Internet program called Wallet, according to James Gosling, Sun vice president, lead engineer and key architect behind the Java cross-platform language. Gosling, on his first visit to Australia, was discussing the future of electronic commerce at a briefing session in Sydney for Australian information technology journalists. ----- San Jose, Calif., April 30 -- VeriSign, a provider of digital authentication services for Internet access and electronic commerce, has announced the opening of its online Digital ID Center. VeriSign claims the center is capable of issuing millions of personal Digital IDs for World Wide Web and Internet e-mail users. Digital IDs use cryptographic techniques to provide a means of authenticating the identity of each party in an electronic transaction. A Digital ID is issued by VeriSign, after background checks are made on an individual or "entity." Once issued, the Digital ID can be used within any enabled application such as Netscape Navigator Internet client software and Netscape SuiteSpot.