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Ensure the integrity and authenticity of electronic payslips.

2010-05-18T16:39:55Z

Soft-IT relies on Cryptolog's technology and launches its solution of dematerialization of payslips, Cyberpaye.

Cryptolog enables IT-Soft to ensure the integrity and authenticity of payslips stored on Cyberpaye.

Since May 12, 2009, he is permitted to replace the paper payslip by an electronic version, subjected to certain conditions (agreement of the employee, data integrity and conservation of a copy for 5 years by the employer). Nevertheless, the paper payslips are still legion, when 50% of the employees are willing to move to electronic format.

In this context as Soft-IT, consulting firm in Human Resources Information Systems, wanted to make available to companies a solution for paperless pay slips : Cyberpaye. Made for all employees and all enterprises, this solution brings real benefits functionally and technically.

Dematerialisation of legally binding documents must be supported by security solutions.And electronic signature is a response to the need for authenticity and integrity of the data. Soft-IT has used the expertise of Cryptolog, publisher of innovative solutions for electronic signature, timestamping and proof management, to ensure the integrity and authenticity of payslips.

Cyberpaye consists of two secure internet portals. The employee portal provides free access, 24/24 and 7 / 7 to the pay slips.

The electronic documents are stored indefinitely and safely. The risk of loss associated with removal, theft, fire or flood are eliminated.

The portal allows the company HR department to archive legally payslips. It saves time in the chain of transmission of payslips: paper, printers, ink, envelopes, postage, transport ...

"The solution Cyberpaye developed by Soft-IT is a very practical and operational application of integration of electronic signatures in a business process. This solution is user friendly, efficient and reliable, we are very proud to contribute to it. "Said Gautier Harmel, Commercial Director Cryptolog.

"Cryptolog has quickly brought to us the most suitable solution for the integration of electronic signatures to our solution. The responsiveness and support we have received has been vital in meeting our deadlines ", said Erwan Nalewajek, CTO Soft-IT

About Soft-IT (www.cyberpaye.com)

Soft-IT was founded in 2006 by three consultants in Human Resources Information Systems, it has participated in the implementation of SAP HR in several major international companies.

In 2010 Soft-IT launched Cyberpaye software, paperless pay slips with real expertise in the fields of payroll, both functionally and technically.

Dematerialization is not a computer project. It reflects a commitment of the Human Resources Department to win the support of employees and social partners.

New Business Development Director for CRYPTOLOG

2010-04-21T14:54:53Z

Cryptolog announces the arrival of Gautier Harmel as Business Development Director.

In 2009, Cryptolog has confirmed that he was one of the key actors for all organisations with a dematerialisation project. With a turnover rise of 20%, in the current economic situation, Cryptolog wants to sustain this dynamics and to keep on progressing on the European market. In order to support this growth, Gautier Harmel has joined the managing team as Business Development Director.

Gautier is an engineer, who graduated from the University Paris VI and holds a senior professional diploma in computing. He started his professional life in 2000 when he founded the start-up Qosmos, company specialised in IP networks management and analysis. He used to specifically managed the development of a very innovative technology of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI).

In 2001, he takes over the Operations management and takes in charge three teams : business development, pre-sales and after-sales support. As a member of the board, he keeps on participating in the company management.

Between 2005 and 2008, he is in charge of the Marketing Department, as Marketing Director, he places the offer on new markets and supports the strong growth of Qosmos, with a turnover doubling every year.

In 2008, he gets involved in Ethertrust, a young company who has created a smartcard aiming at making secure web applications, while simplifying their use. He becomes Marketing and Business Development Director.

To conctact him : sales@cryptolog.com

Meet us at OMAT Milano 2010

2010-03-17T15:48:45Z

Julien Stern, CEO of Cryptolog and Gautier Harmel, Business Development Director will be on March 30th and 31st, in Milano for OMAT Milano, the reference event in Italy for what concerns the electronic management of documents, content and business processes.

The Italian e-administration has really integrated the European rules on electronic signature in their daily processes. The use of electronic signature in their exchange with companies is common.
That's the reason why it seemed natural for Cryptolog to be part of this event and take this opportunity to meet our clients and contacts there.

Our "on the shelf products" are specifically design to meet the expectations for high quality electronic signature solutions and high level of compliance with the best and latest standards.

Would you like to meet us ? contact us to arrange a meeting : sales@cryptolog.com

More information on the event : http://milano2010.omat360.it/

Unicity MSS 4.0 is now available!

2010-01-04T09:45:06Z

Cryptolog's Mass Signing Server, Unicity MSS, is available from now in version 4.0. This new major version brings a lot of great functionalities, let's discover them!

PKCS#11 - Unicity MSS supports now any cryptographic device compliant with the PKCS#11 standard. In a few clicks, you can thus easily access cryptographic keys stored in hundreds of devices such as smartcards, USB tokens, or Hardware Security Modules.

PAdES certification signature - In addition of the recipient signature defined by the PAdES standard, Unicity MSS is now able to create certification signature (also called MDP signature, for « modification detection permissions »). This kind of signature protects the signature validity, while modifications can still be made such as adding comments or filling in blank fields.

Web Interface - Quickly sign a document and test Unicity MSS thanks to its web interface.

Improved XAdES performances - Some specific issues have been reported about XAdES signatures. Thanks to the work of our development team, the XAdES signature creation process has been improved in terms of processing time and needs in memory.

Centralize your signature profiles - Thanks to the external signature mode, Unicity MSS takes care of all the subtle details regarding the preparation and the finalization of your CAdES, XAdES or PAdES signature formats. You just need to perform the "raw" digital signature thanks to CUTE, the key being stored for instance on a user's smartcard or on a mobile phone.

The new version of Unicity MSS is available for purchase and download for now! If your license is still valid, you can obtain this new version upon request.

As usual, please share with us any comment about this product, all the Cryptolog's team is at your disposal to keep providing you with the electronic signature services you need!

Contact us !

Cryptolog at DEMAT EXPO 2009

2009-11-23T10:37:30Z

Cryptolog will be present at the 6th edition of the event DEMAT'EXPO (previously DEMATERIALISER), on next December 1st and 2nd, in Paris.

Being a major actor of the dematerialization of legal documents in Europe, Cryptolog had to be part of this event.

Come to meet our experts and discover our solutions for electronic signature on our stand n°26.

On the first day of exhibition, Julien Stern, CEO of Cryptolog, will give a conference on "Qualified electronic signature", specifically on the key elements in the implementation of an electronic signature process, whether it is at point-of-sales or on the web.

Julien Stern, Tuesday, December 1st - 3:30pm to 4:15 - conference room S3

Come to visit us! Information and registration on the website of the event:

Cryptolog announces the nomination of Marie Wattez as its Marketing and Communication Director

2009-10-26T14:43:05Z

Marie joined Cryptolog at the beginning of 2009.
Our avid CryptoBlog readers know her quite well already...

Right before Cryptolog, she managed for 7 years the marketing and the communication of Argon Consulting, a supply chain consulting company, where she acquired a deep experience of BtoB operational marketing.
Prior to this, she spent several years as operational optimization manager, with the consulting companies IMPAC and IMR.

Her mission is to promote Cryptolog image and solutions in France and in Europe as well as to structure new commercial offerings.

Marie, welcome aboard... officially now!

RSA Conference Europe, long-term validation of electronic signature

2009-10-14T15:38:14Z

We are very pleased to announce that Julien Stern, CEO of Cryptolog will participate in a Panel session at the major event in information security, RSA Conference Europe 2009, taking place in London, 20-22th October.
Together with speakers of Adobe Systems, Sealed, Thales and la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluna, he will discuss the issues of storing signed documents for long periods and the validation of signatures in the European legal context. It is a great opportunity for us to share our vision and approach with the best experts in Europe.
Session SEC-104, Tuesday October 20th, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM.
"Long Term Validation of Electronic Signatures in the European Legal Context"

Cryptolog already compliant with PAdES

2009-10-06T13:38:14Z

Cryptolog, the French electronic signature solutions supplier is pleased to announce that all its software is already compliant with the new electronic signature standard PAdES - Portable Document Format (PDF) Advanced Electronic Signatures.

Less than one month after the publication of the new ESTI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) standard, Cryptolog proves, once again, its leading-edge position within the electronic signature sector in Europe.

Cryptolog is in fact one of the companies chosen to be part of the Specialist Task Force which has written the standard.

"Our involvement with the ETSI demonstrates Cryptolog's will to promote high quality standards for the electronic signature sector and to guarantee our customers the best possible compatibility', states Julien Stern, CEO of Cryptolog.

Read more information on PAdES, read the ETSI press release on www.etsi.org

NIST SHA-3 competition:Why MD6 has not been selected for round 2

2009-07-27T09:44:05Z

MD6 was considered one of the favorite. However in an email posted in the NIST mailing list on the first of July, Ron Rivest (the R in RSA) had announced that he was minding that MD6 was not ready for the SHA-3 competition second round.

We suggest that MD6 is not yet ready for the next SHA-3 round, and we also provide some suggestions for NIST as the contest moves forward.

So what happened? The MD6 algorithm was too slow compared to the SHA-2 family algorithms and the other competitors. The computational efficiency of an algorithm is obviously an important selection criteria. In order to gain speed the MD6 team decided to reduce the number of rounds from 80 down to 40. But if the initial MD6 algorithm had a security proof against differential cryptanalysis¹ Rivest and his team was not able to provide such as proof for the reduced version.

The MD6 team has worked hard to see if a reduced-round version of MD6 could be proven resistant to differential attacks. So far, we have failed to do so.

This does not mean at all that MD6 has been broken or that this new version with fewer rounds is weaker but it seems to be enough for Rivest to give up the contest:

While MD6 appears to be a robust and secure cryptographic hash algorithm, and has much merit for multi-core processors, our inability to provide a proof of security for a reduced-round (and possibly tweaked) version of MD6 against differential attacks suggests that MD6 is not ready for consideration for the next SHA-3 round.

Differential cryptanalysis: a type of cryptanalysis which studies how the differences on the input affects the algorithm output in order to extract some information on a secret or find a weakness in the algorithm.

Signing e-contracts in point of sales

2009-06-19T08:58:46Z

If you missed our conference at Infosecurity 2009, check out our video and slides of Julien Stern' talk.

End to end dematerialisation of signed contracts in points of sales

signing econtracts in shops
par Cryptolog

For any further information on that subject, do not hesitate to contact us at sales@cryptolog.com

Infosecurity, the biggest IT Security show in Europe

2009-05-04T09:26:42Z

Cryptolog held stand and conference on Infosecurity 2009.

Like in 2008, Cryptolog was present on the biggest event of IT security in Europe, in London.

We had the opportunity to meet, on our stand, visitors coming not only
from the UK but also from all over Europe like Greece, Portugal or the
Netherlands. It is a great moment for us to communicate on our
technology, on our solutions and to understand better the needs of the
organisations.

Julien Stern, CEO of Cryptolog, held a conference on "End-to-end dematerialisation of signed contracts in point of sale".This conference should soon be available as video.

Cryptolog will be at Infosecurity 2009 in London

2009-04-06T08:06:22Z

We will be present on this major event in Europe.

Meet our team on our stand k93.

Julien Stern, CEO of Cryptolog, will talk in the Business Strategy Seminars on "End-to-end dematerialization in points of sale", on Tuesday, April 28th.

Cryptolog, winner of the Demat'awards

2009-03-26T09:08:43Z

Cryptolog et SFR, best demonstrated dematerialization project, won the 1rst prize of the Demat'Awards.

Paris, march 25th 2009, on Documation show.

The 1rst prize of the Demat'awards has been attributed to Cryptolog and SFR for their collaborative project of dematerialisation of subscription in points of sales, by an independent jury of experts.

This event was organised for the first time this year by FedISA (Federation de l'ILM, du Stockage et de l'Archivage), in association with Reed Exhibition and Archimag, to reward the best demonstrated projects of dematerialization.

The members of the Jury have been impressed by the innovation and the performance of the project of Cryptolog and SFR.

We are very proud to have won the 1st prize of the Demat'Awards, rewarding the innovation of our suite of solutions for legal dematerialization and the productive collaboration with SFR.

Julien Stern, Cryptolog et Christian Bouvier, SFR

Cryptolog nominated for the Demat Awards 2009

2009-03-13T08:40:00Z

This is the 1rst edition of the Demat Awards, organised by FedISA, in collaboration with Reed Exhibitions and Archimag. Five projects are nominated and only three of them will be rewarded. They are products, solutions or services related to dematerialization. The nominees are performing and innovating solutions, in various applications.

Cryptolog and SFR presented their project of electronic signature in point of sales. Unlike the other projects in competition, this is really a collaborative project.
The Award ceremony will take place on the DOCUMATION trade show in Paris, on Wednesday, march 25th and three solutions will be rewarded.
We keep our fingers crossed!!

more info on the Demat'awards in the Press release.

Over 30% of growth rate in 2008

2009-02-19T08:56:02Z

A successful year for new contracts and strategic partnerships as well as the launch of Cryptolog's flagship product: PERENNITY.

Cryptolog is pleased to announce a growth in revenue of more than 30% during 2008. Last year was marked by the signing of important contracts with key players from the banking and mobile telephone sectors and other French and European institutions.
Our solutions address all decision makers who realise that implementing a dematerialisation infrastructure which also ensures evidential value not only reduces their operational costs but also speeds up legal decision making processes. We are convinced that 2009 will be the year of legally valid paperless procedures. The recent introduction of the "Plan Besson" in France which, like the interim Digital Britain report in the UK, sets out the framework for France's digital future, bears witness to this trend.
Such a promising start in terms of both technological innovation and commercial activity
means that Cryptolog is able to tackle 2009 with enthusiasm. Indeed, with its established
solutions and its effective approach, the company is well on the way to becoming the service provider of choice for industry, the service sector and all businesses with a document dematerialisation project.
As a company created with an international outlook, Cryptolog has developed its activity
overseas thanks to strategic partners and high profile institutional clients. In addition to
participating in round tables, conferences and trade shows both at home and abroad, the co-founders are regularly present on scientific boards dedicated to standardisation.

A strategic client
The French mobile phone operator SFR chose to deploy Cryptolog's dematerialisation and certified electronic archiving solutions to manage their retail customers' "e-contracts" in their sales outlets. By using Cryptolog's technology, SFR was able to reduce its paper-related operational costs yet retain the same legal value for its documents. It was essential to find a solution that would enable contracts to be consulted at any time and retain permanent validity, even decades later.

A high valuable partnership
A partnership agreement with Adobe has enabled Cryptolog to provide technology permitting the advanced electronic signature of documents. End users of Cryptolog's solutions now benefit from both enveloped and enveloping signatures for their PDF documents. Therefore the signatory can be identified, and these PDF documents will now enjoy the same legal value as hand-signed paper documents. Cryptolog are delighted to be been able to collaborate with Adobe on dematerialisation projects as nowadays it is essential to offer corporate users, who make widespread use of the PDF format, enduring validity for all their documents.

Perennity, the innovative archiving solution
Cryptolog's unique solution "Perennity", can archive documents and ensure their evidential value over long timescales, enabling them to be retrieved at any time - even if the original signature algorithms cannot be relied on. Archived Items are constantly protected to keep abreast of advances in cryptography or to anticipate the end of technological life-cycles.
Perennity allows archived items to be retrieved, even after 10, 50 or 100 years, and
guarantees cryptographic proof of deposit and authenticity.
Perennity offers business users an encryption archiving solution with full evidential value,
without the need to rely on, or trust, a third party. Electronic signatures are not simply stored and retained, but preserved for long periods so that they can be double-checked at any given time.
Cryptolog's solutions bring real added-value to the classic practice of dematerialisation,
rendering the concept complete by decorrelating traditional archiving and evidential value
over time.

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