Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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Does this sound like Wave to you?

http://gcn.com/Articles/2011/01/12/NSTIC-Web-site-no-national-ID.aspx?Page=1


Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced the office Friday during a symposium at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, at which public- and private-sector officials discussed the need for a trusted system to support online transactions. The program office will:

Promote private sector involvement.

Build consensus on the necessary legal and policy frameworks to enhance privacy, free expression, and open markets.

Work with industry to identify new standards or collaboration that might be needed;

Support and coordinate interagency collaboration.

Assess progress in meeting the goals, objectives, and milestones of the strategy.

Promote pilot projects and other implementations
The identity solutions must be secure and resilient.
They must be interoperable.
They will be voluntary.
They must cost-effective and user-friendly.

“We have a major problem in cyberspace, because when we are online we do not really know if people, businesses, and organizations are who they say they are,” Schmidt wrote in a blog posting about NSTIC last week. “Moreover, we now have to remember dozens of user names and passwords. This multiplicity is so inconvenient that most people re-use their passwords for different accounts, which gives the criminal who compromises their password the ‘keys to the kingdom.’”