The Four Bridges Forum aims to bring trusted identity online
Trusting transactions online can be difficult. How does a user know who he’s dealing with on the other end of a computer?
To ease this concern the federal government created the Federal PKI Architecture, or the Federal Bridge. It enables government agencies to issue digital certificates that can be used to authenticate individuals for trusted transactions online.
Now organizations outside of the federal government are cross-certifying with the federal bridge for trusted transactions. Along with the federal bridge, there is CertiPath, which serves the defense and aerospace industries, Safe Bio-Pharma, for biopharmaceutical and healthcare industries and HEBCA, which serves the higher education sector in the United States.
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