CertCo
| Industry | Financial cryptography |
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| Founded | March 1994 in New York City, New York |
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| Defunct | 2002 |
| Fate | Dissolved |
| Parent | Bankers Trust (1994–1996) |
| Website | certco.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2000-08-07) |
CertCo, Inc., was a financial cryptography startup spun out of Bankers Trust in the 1990s. The company pioneered a risk management approach to cryptographic services. It had offices in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offered three main public key infrastructure (PKI) based products: an Identity Warranty system (tracking and insuring reliance on identity assertions in financial transactions); an electronic payment system (internally known as Acquire); and an Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) responder for validating X.509 public key certificates. It went out of business in Spring 2002 never having found a wide market for its products despite filing a number of patents and developing new technology.