The Post Office is about to rollout a new service to validate electronically signed, digitally prepared certificates.
The service will enhance to the postal service’s recently introduced NetPost.Certified, a service specially created for government agencies to secure and authenticate electronic correspondence and signatures using USPS-issued smartcards and smartcard readers.
Users will receive a certificate embedded in the smartcard for use in “highly sensitive electronic transactions,” including the issuance of passports from the State Department.
The service was explained Wednesday by Stephen M. Kearney, senior vice president of corporate business and development at the USPS at the 2001 Global Internet Summit at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.
He said the service will only be available to government employees in 46 post offices on the East coast by mid-March, would be expanded to a national service by the fall. He did not say if there would be a fee to use the service.
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