Abstract: An apparatus and method provides non-repudiation of transaction information such as mark up language forms, using a non-proxy cryptographic application, such as an applet, that provides information to and from the Web browser. Once a user fills out a mark up language-based form as provided, for example, through a Web browser and selects a “submit” button, the non-proxy cryptographic application sends the completed form to a server or the receiving unit that provided the incomplete form and waits for the server to present confirmation data such as a confirmation request form. In one embodiment, once a confirmation request form is received, the non-proxy cryptographic application temporarily maintains the confirmation request form, namely a representation of the completed form as provided by the server, in temporary (e.g., volatile) memory, such as RAM. The non-proxy cryptographic application then sends a copy of the temporarily maintained confirmation request form to the Web browser for display to a user.

Abstract: A method and apparatus, such as a secure distribution server, receives encrypted information from a sender, wherein the encrypted information is for transmission to a plurality of intended recipients. In addition to the encrypted information, the method includes receiving an encrypted secret key that is encrypted using a public key associated with the secure distribution server. The method and apparatus decrypts the encrypted secret key to produce a decrypted secret key. The method and apparatus then obtains a public key associated with one or more delegates of the intended recipient(s), sender(s) or other entity and encrypts the decrypted secret key with the corresponding public key of at least one delegate (or each of a plurality of delegates) associated with the intended recipient(s) or sender(s) to produce at least one delegate-specific secure secret key (or plurality of delegate-specific secure secret keys).