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TCS emerges biggest certifying authority

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HYDERABAD: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has emerged the biggest certifying authority (CA) in India by issuing two lakh digital signature certificates.

Announcing this at a press conference here on Thursday, general manager of the Hyderabad unit of TCS, V. Rajanna, said the company’s CA had posted an impressive growth owing to the initiatives of the Union Government like ‘MCA (Ministry of Company Affairs) 21’ programme. The number of certificates issued to MCA-21 users alone crossed 1.50 lakh.

‘User-friendly PKI’

The Executive Vice-President of the company, M. Vidyasagar, said TCS CA made public key infrastructure (PKI) user-friendly and easy to deploy on several platforms.

The TCS’s Hyderabad Tech centre had conceptualised and led the research and development initiative to develop PKI infrastructure products.

He said there were five lakh signatures made by different players in the field of which TCS’ share was two lakh. Mr. Vidysagar said e-passports would drastically minimise fraudulent practices. The company had proposed to International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) for standardisation of travel documents and make them machine-readable, he said.

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