Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides an apparatus and method for online data conversion. The apparatus and method are configured to read data that is overlapped by a window in a first position in a volume, convert the data into a converted text, write the converted text into the volume, and slide the window to a second position in the volume.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing encrypted data on a computer readable medium wherein an encryption key is determined for a received quantum of data. The quantum of data is encrypted according to the encryption key at a volume level when the quantum of data comprises volume data. The quantum of data is encrypted according to the encryption key at a file level when the data comprises file data. The encrypted data is then directed to a computer readable medium.

Abstract: A host/agent system and security-certificate-management infrastructure enhanced to provide backward compatibility, despite launching of new administrative host processes employing new software versions, to avoid regenerating and redistributing security certificates to existing agents. Certificate management is removed from the administrative host process and embedded within a new certification-authority entity. The new certification-authority entity generates new digitally signed security certificates using the previously generated host private decryption key, inherited as the new CA private decryption key by the CA. The administrative host software can be upgraded to a new version that includes security-certificate-management tools provided by a new vendor, without the need for generation of a new encryption/decryption key pair for verifying and digitally signing security certificates and concomitant obsolescence of the existing, already distributed security certificates.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing encrypted data on a computer readable medium wherein an encryption key is determined for a received quantum of data. The quantum of data is encrypted according to the encryption key at a volume level when the quantum of data comprises volume data. The quantum of data is encrypted according to the encryption key at a file level when the data comprises file data.

Abstract: Computer application performance is enhanced by parallelizing the processing of the received application launch argument list. One or more input argument files are identified in the argument list. Two or more parallel threads are created when there are two or more input argument files in the argument list. The input argument files are then processed using the parallel threads, and the results are synchronized if necessary.

Abstract: A host/agent system and security-certificate-management infrastructure enhanced to provide backward compatibility, despite launching of new administrative host processes employing new software versions, to avoid regenerating and redistributing security certificates to existing agents. Certificate management is removed from the administrative host process and embedded within a new certification-authority entity. The new certification-authority entity generates new digitally signed security certificates using the previously generated host private decryption key, inherited as the new CA private decryption key by the CA. The administrative host software can be upgraded to a new version that includes security-certificate-management tools provided by a new vendor, without the need for generation of a new encryption/decryption key pair for verifying and digitally signing security certificates and concomitant obsolescence of the existing, already distributed security certificates.