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Re: Social Security/CommerceNet/PitneyBowes try digital signature W-2's
Note that there's no mention of encryption or confidentiality.
ssa.gov gets network connectivity via BBNplanet.
Adam
John Gilmore wrote:
| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 97 10:06:55 EST
| From: [email protected]
| Message-Id: <[email protected]>
| To: [email protected]
| Subject: Test Opportuity for CommerceNet Member Small Companies
|
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| This message was addressed to: [email protected]
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| To CommerceNet Members Who Are Small Employers:
|
| CommerceNet member companies who are small employers (approximately 30
| employees) are invited to participate this month with the Social Security
| Administration and PitneyBowes, Inc. in an important proof-of-concept
| project in
| which the Social Security Administration will accept digitally-signed W-2 and
| W-3 data via the Internet, with PitneyBowes issuing test software and
| public key
| certificates to participating employers. (I mentioned this test at the
| December
| CommerceNet Members' meeting.)
|
| Participation will require completion of a field test agreement with SSA,
| submission of a request for certification by PitneyBowes, and installation of
| software on a Windows PC which will enable the generation of a signature key
| pair as well as software which will generate, sign and transmit the wage
| data to
| Social Security. The software also produces W-2 paper forms for
| distribution to
| employees. If a company already uses a software product to create W-2's, the
| output file can be used for this test. (Please note that the test is not
| designed to evaluate all aspects of public key cryptography - for example, no
| certification practice statement has been developed.)
|
| If you are interested in participating in this important public/private sector
| test of digital signature wage reporting, please contact me as soon as
| possible
| and I'll arrange for Mr. Chuck Liptz, SSA's Project Manager, to contact you
| immediately to provide additional details. (Chuck can also be reached
| directly
| at (410) 965-7057 or <[email protected]>.
|
| John Sabo
| Social Security Administration
| (410) 965-1550
|
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