W3C Launches MashSSL Incubator Group

W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the MashSSL Incubator Group, whose mission is to create an open security protocol to solve a fundamental Internet security problem. Specifically, when two web applications communicate through a potentially untrusted user they do not have any standard way of mutually authenticating each other and establishing a trusted channel. The group seeks to create an open, secure standard for solving this problem. The following W3C Members have sponsored the charter for this group: DigiCert, Venafi and VeriSign. Read more about the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies. Incubator Activity work is not on the W3C standards track.