Cryptography and Computer Security

In order to securely process orders and send messages over the company network, I will need to make sure information is properly encrpyted. My company will have its own public key which will be given to all employees. The public key will enable messages or orders with classified information to turn from plaintext to ciphertext making it useless, garbled information.

Only myself, and a few other high-ranking administrators will have acess to the private key. The private key will enable decryption of an encrypted message. If an employee needs a message to be decrypted, someone with acess to the private key will decrypt it.

As is required by law, my company will have a digital certificate to identify an e-mail as one that was sent from my company. It proves the legitimacy of the e-mail and helps to fight phishing. If customers are receiving order confirmations and the like, they need to know that it's coming from my company's website and that it's not a fraudulent message with malware embedded in it.

Key Video Concepts

On the website promoting my company's product, there will be videos demonstrating how my products works. The videos being posted will be similar to those on YouTube as they will be use progressive streaming. The videos shouldn't be expected to be any longer than 10 minutes therefore on demand progressive streaming should be adequate enough as I'm looking for content not quality in the videos.

My website, also similar to YouTube, will enable users of the product to post their own videos praising the product's performance. Users will will be able to make their own accounts post their videos in variety of formats from mov, mpeg, or avl. The process will be hassle-free allowing anyone from amateurs to fulll-time professional full access with just the click of a button.

My company will be based around PC's therefore I will impliment the use of Windows Silverlite. Silverlite will soon replace Media and will be the preeminent Windows codec for playing movies. silverlite is a good choice as it will be ready available on all computer formats.