Abstract: A method of assessing risk in an electronic transaction involves assignment of quality attributes to cryptographic identities presented in a digital transaction. The quality assignment supports assessment of risk in the transaction. The evaluation of risk in the transaction is made by assessing machine readable attributes of the digital identities along with transaction details. The digital identity attributes may be constructed using extensions of existing standards. A guarantee against risk of loss may be obtained by procuring insurance on the transaction before execution. Third party insurers may analyze the risk of loss in a transaction by assessing the attributes of digital identities along with transaction details and may provide a requestor with an insurance premium quote. Based on the value of the quote, the transaction participants may decide whether or not to execute the transaction.

Abstract: A method of assessing risk in an electronic transaction involves assignment of quality attributes to cryptographic identities presented in a digital transaction. The quality assignment supports assessment of risk in the transaction. The evaluation of risk in the transaction is made by assessing machine readable attributes of the digital identities along with transaction details. The digital identity attributes may be constructed using extensions of existing standards. A guarantee against risk of loss may be obtained by procuring insurance on the transaction before execution. Third party insurers may analyze the risk of loss in a transaction by assessing the attributes of digital identities along with transaction details and may provide a requestor with an insurance premium quote. Based on the value of the quote, the transaction participants may decide whether or not to execute the transaction.

Abstract: A method of assessing risk in an electronic transaction involves assignment of quality attributes to cryptographic identities presented in a digital transaction. The quality assignment supports assessment of risk in the transaction. The evaluation of risk in the transaction is made by assessing machine readable attributes of the digital identities along with transaction details. The digital identity attributes may be constructed using extensions of existing standards. A guarantee against risk of loss may be obtained by procuring insurance on the transaction before execution. Third party insurers may analyze the risk of loss in a transaction by assessing the attributes of digital identities along with transaction details and may provide a requestor with an insurance premium quote. Based on the value of the quote, the transaction participants may decide whether or not to execute the transaction.

Abstract: A method of controlling information exposure in a multiparty transaction includes an originating transaction participant cryptographically encoding all information for each of the transaction participants such that a unique data content and encryption are used for each of the messages destined to the other transaction participants. The cryptographically encoded messages are transmitted to the transaction participants such that each may decrypt their message and respond to a primary transaction participant with status concerning their portion of the transaction. After reception of affirmative status messages from the transaction participants, the primary transaction participant may transmit messages to the responding transaction participants to execute the multiparty transaction. The originating transaction participant may also be provided an indication that the multiparty transaction is executed.

Abstract: Techniques to encode and decode barcodes are described. In an implementation, characters included in content are divided into a plurality of blocks, such that each block is to include compressed or non-compressed characters. An indication is added to a header for each block that specifies whether the block includes compressed or non-compressed characters. Blocks which include non-compressed characters are encoded with a particular codepage. The indication of the non-compressed characters in the header does not reference the particular codepage.

Abstract: Access control data is transcoded or translated into a unified format. The unified format is acceptable and extensible so that other control languages can be transcoded into the unified format. Rights management information may be converted to unified storage metadata for use in a unified storage system. The construction of a data object that contains data and rights management information comprises transcoding both the original data to the unified storage format as well as transcoding the rights management information from any of a number of platforms to the rights management format used by the unified storage platform. Transcoding may occur in a transacted environment so that failures to complete will not degrade or lose data and rollback is possible if the process fails.

Abstract: A method of controlling information exposure in a multiparty transaction includes an originating transaction participant cryptographically encoding all information for each of the transaction participants such that a unique data content and encryption are used for each of the messages destined to the other transaction participants. The cryptographically encoded messages are transmitted to the transaction participants such that each may decrypt their message and respond to a primary transaction participant with status concerning their portion of the transaction. After reception of affirmative status messages from the transaction participants, the primary transaction participant may transmit messages to the responding transaction participants to execute the multiparty transaction. The originating transaction participant may also be provided an indication that the multiparty transaction is executed.

Abstract: A method of assessing risk in an electronic transaction involves assignment of quality attributes to cryptographic identities presented in a digital transaction. The quality assignment supports assessment of risk in the transaction. The evaluation of risk in the transaction is made by assessing machine readable attributes of the digital identities along with transaction details. The digital identity attributes may be constructed using extensions of existing standards. A guarantee against risk of loss may be obtained by procuring insurance on the transaction before execution. Third party insurers may analyze the risk of loss in a transaction by assessing the attributes of digital identities along with transaction details and may provide a requestor with an insurance premium quote. Based on the value of the quote, the transaction participants may decide whether or not to execute the transaction.