We are completing the process of getting our chemistry server certified by Verisign/Belsign. This will enable it to, inter alia, issue signed Java applets etc. The process, whilst cheap, is interesting, since it involves the institutional lawyers signing an interesting pile of paperwork certifying in essence that e.g. I exist. Arguably, its something that might become essential in the future. Is this something anyone else has undertaken/heard about others undertaking, or whose company has gone through the process for Internet Commerce? Apart from enabling some aspects of Java, we did it because we wanted to increase the "authenticity" of the origin of the documents coming from out site, and because its an interesting learning curve getting a university group certified (its done per server, and against a named individual). Perhaps people at the other end could not care a brass monkey about the certified authenticity of documents coming from us. Certification as such of course does not prove anything of the quality of the chemistry so emanating! Does anyone in industry, or behind a firewall care about our authentication? Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)