Description of the participants

» Management (WP1)
	Groupement d'Intérêt Public Modernisation des Déclarations Sociales (GIP-MDS) The GIP-MDS [Public Interest Consortium for the Modernization of Social Contribution Returns] is a guidance body set up by the social welfare agencies with a view to enabling companies to make their social contribution returns as required by regulations and contract, using cheap, effective and user-friendly means that are easy to install, and based notably on Internet technologies. This is the purpose of the www.net-entreprises.fr website which has been on line since 25 September 2000. The missions of the GIP-MDS are the following : Overall ownership of the process. Delegated ownership or assumption of role of prime contractor for the development and operation of websites. Assistance to social welfare organizations in designing websites for remote submission of statements and returns. Provision of services to those submitting returns. Provision of services to software and IT services firms. Proposals for simplification of regulations. Briefing of companies. Direct contribution GIP-MDS has lead an important activity on PKI specification and design for their net-entreprises project for social declaration management. As a neutral and public organisation, GIP-MDS will also realize the management of the project.
» Dissemination and Exploitation (WP2)
	ACTIMAGE ACTIMAGE is a technology consulting company based in Luxembourg, with offices in France, Germany and Switzerland. ACTIMAGE provides blue-chip companies, small and medium size businesses and institutions with auditing, development and training services in the area of new technologies. The company has four key areas of expertise: Software engineering; Systems, networks and telecommunications; Multimedia; Training. ACTIMAGE ranks among the top web agency and is recognised as a major player in the adoption of new technology in the region. Through sound expertise in new technology, ACTIMAGE is also able to assist companies implement state-of-the-art IT solutions. Direct contribution ACTIMAGE will lead the dissemination and exploitation phase by providing EuropePKI with a professional web portal and a team of technical project managers who has significant experience in the review and publishing of technical articles and industry standards. Throughout the exploitation phase, ACTIMAGE will offer consulting and integration services based on the EuropePKI solution. It will promote the adoption of EuropePKI among its customers and look for opportunities to position EuropePKI as an alternative to commercial products in eCommerce solutions.
	Salamandre Salamandre is a European consultancy focusing on the elaboration of business development strategies for both public and private businesses and institutions. We concentrate our development on areas with strong implications for European sovereignty. Salamandre combines experts in intelligence and business development and is able to build up ad hoc Task Forces mustering atypical profiles. Our teams act as confidential advisors to general management and coaches to operational management. In Europe, Salamandre has offices in Paris, Brussels, Bonn, Munich, Zurich and Tel Aviv. Direct contribution In the field of secure systems, Salamandre has an extensive knowledge of business strategies for technology providers (PKI, cryptocards, encryption, biometrics etc.) and could contribute to EuropePKI by supporting Actimage in the exploitation stage of the project.
» Requirement (WP3)
	Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGEY) The Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group, one of the world leaders in management consulting and IT services. It was created when Cap Gemini Group merged with Ernst & Young Consulting. One effect of this merger has been to strengthen the Group's worldwide positions. A further key benefit of the merger has been to strengthen the Group in management consulting. The company has a significant presence in the following geographies: North America, Western Europe, Scandinavia, Poland, Singapore, Hong-Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India and Mexico. Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is established in three core business areas: Management consulting, Systems Transformation and Information Systems Management-Outsourcing. Cap Gemini Ernst & Young has six global sector units: Telecom Media Networks (TMN), Consumer Products / Retail / Distribution (CPRD), Energy and Utilities, Financial Services, High Technology and Automotive, and Life Sciences and Chemicals. Direct contribution We plan to deliver different deliverable for user requirement and specification. we manage the user requirement brainstorming meeting. The brainstorming meeting identify and express the needs of the user within the area circumscribed by the project definition.
	Electricité De France (EDF) Electricité de France (EDF) has the responsibility for generating, transmitting and distributing electricity in France. EDF has developed an international strategy based on investment and sale of services. The company relies on partnerships, and is present in a wide range of foreign companies. EDF R&D : the aim of the R&D Division is to keep electricity costs competitive, prepare the generating facilities of the future, enhance the quality of supply while preserving the environment. The R&D Division relies on other research organisations and is for instance involved in more than 60 European projects. EDF and Information Technologies : EDF has decided to take the Internet bend. Therefore, three major programmes have been launched: e-Commerce, e-Procurement, e-Employees. Being one of the largest European computer centres, the R&D division has devoted a specialised IT research department called "Modelling and Information Technologies". Direct contribution As an "End-user" participant of the project, Electricité de France intends to play an active role in the "Requirements" and "Evaluation and Demonstration" phases. Regarding the first point, EDF can bring in particular its visibility on large scale information system, including customer relation management and billing system. Moreover, EDF propose to bring its expertise to the consortium, both for requirements and evaluation/demonstration steps. Its position as a leading energy supplier ensures an interesting potential for dissemination activities.
	France Télécom Recherche & Développement (FTR&D) France Télécom R&D, formerly CNET, the Research and Development Centre for France Télécom, currently employs 4000 people. Its annual budget amounts to 3 billion francs. The activities of France Télécom R&D are distributed among 7 R&D divisions units focused on France Télécom's major strategic targets and critical technical areas. With headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France Télécom R&D is comprised of eight others sites (Lannion, Rennes, Grenoble, Caen, Bagneux, Belfort, Sophia-Antipolis and La Turbie) and one laboratory recently established in California. France Télécom R&D is working with numerous partners including academics and manufacturers from all over Europe on over 100 co-operative research projects which are partially financed by the European Union. Direct contribution FTR&D proposes to participate on the following topics : Workpackage "User requirements and needs" : identification of users needs and requirements for a Open Source PKI. Workpackage "Demonstration and evaluation" : evaluation tests and operational implementation of the Open Source PKI within services. FTR&D proposes to evaluate the adequation between the developped Open Source PKI and identified users needs.
	Finsiel Finsiel, with yearly sales of over 2200 billion Lire and 30 years experience, is the second-ranking Italian group in the field of IT services and consultancy. The Finsiel Group is part of the IT Services Business Unit of Telecom Italia, which has gathered all the IT companies and activities within the Telecom Italia Group. With the Group companies located throughout Italy, from Trieste to Palermo, Finsiel holds a leading position in sectors which are vital for the efficiency and competitiveness of the Italian economy. It works with the central government through Finsiel S.p.A. and Sogei, in management consulting with Consiel, in systems for local authorities with Insiel, in transportation with Tele Sistemi Ferroviari, while it is the national second player in banking and finance through Banksiel. Finsiel takes part in large-scale research and innovation projects promoted by the European Union such as 'Eionet', 'Equal', 'Imagine', 'Aquarelle', 'Hypermuseum' or 'In-Emergencies'. Direct contribution Finsiel will bring into the project its experience in designing and implementing secure smart card services involving large groups of users (Healthcare and Identity cards). In particular, Finsiel will participate to the Requirement and Specification phase interpreting the needs ot the users of the PKI infrastructure. In the Demonstration and Evaluation phase Finsiel will partecipate to the deployment of the test bed. Finsiel will also contribute to designing and implementing business scenarios and test cases and will support the test execution.
	Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Social (INPS) I.N.P.S. is the largest Italian public institution in the social insurance field. I.N.P.S. has various institutional tasks, including the management of personal insurance contributions and positions, settlement, payment and management of pension and other minor social benefit. I.N.P.S. pensions are remitted to employees, self-employed, as well as to domestic workers and other categories. I.N.P.S. is heavily involved in the TESS Project for European exchanges of E-forms and also participates in various European Projects. To provide a capillary distribution of services, I.N.P.S. uses the INTERNET technologies. Services have been carried out to on-line allow: sending the statement of contribution account; receiving pension claim, consultation of statistical codes and insurance positions, access to document and statistical data banks and receiving telematic forms for registration of companies. Direct contribution According to its role of national security organisation involving millions of citizens, enterprises and institutions, INPS will take part in the Requirements Analysys, Specification and Demonstration & Evaluation phases. INPS will bring its experience as a Service Provider currently involved in delivering on-line services (B2C, B2A) through secure Smart-Card based infrastructures. In particular INPS will cooperate in the definition of business scenarios and test cases which will integrate existing services with the new open source PKI infrastructure.
» Design (WP4)
	Giesecke & Devrient Giesecke & Devrient is an international technology company specialized in the production of ank notes, smart cards for payment and telecommunication, and production achines and solutions in these fields. It was founded in 1852 in Leipzig. he sales volume in 2000 was over 1000 million EURO, and the company mploys over 6000 people worldwide; it is present on all continents with ver thirty subsidiaries. Direct contribution Giesecke and Devrient contributes its extensive knowledge in the design, the implementation, and the operation of public key infrastructure, in particular on solutions using smart cards. Giesecke & Devrient's smart cards are secure signature creating devices as defined by the relevant EU directive and form a central means to realize secure public key infrastructures.
» Implementation (WP5)
	Axetel Axetel Consulting is a Romanian IT services and consulting company. Our company's mission is to provide remote project development and consulting services for international clients. Since its creation in 1997, Axetel Consulting has been providing high value-added services in the field of Libre software security for international clients. By delivering IT security services (PKI architectures, VPN, Intranet-Extranet security architecture, encryption, digital signatures), our company has acquired solid experience in remote project development for international clients such as Sagem, La Poste, Sfac-Euler, etc. Direct contribution Axetel Consulting has initially contributed to the creation of the EuropePKI project: initial developer and maintainer of the project known as GnuPki; state-of-the-art expertise in security, libre software and PKI; possibility to use the Libre software PKI for acting as a certification authority operator in Romania; as a Romanian software company, participating in European projects is like "being" already in Europe; by far the cheapest implementation solution for the consortium. Axetel proposes to continue the work already accomplished by participating on the following topics: Leader of the Workpackage "Implementation" ; Production of the missing code necessary for a running PKI software.
» Project Integration (WP6)
	On-X ON-X Group is providing consultancy and services in the domain of network and IT security mostly to large customers in such sectors as the Bank, Finance, Insurance, Telecom and Industrial. The ON-X department involved with the EU-PKI project is the "security consulting and services" department which encompasses EdelWeb specialised in both vulnerability and penetration testing and in cryptography and certifications. The "security department" provides a complete set of services to its customers including high level consultancy, technical assistance and expertise in such domains as electronic signature, firewalls, intrusion detection, vulnerability detection, technical audits and penetration testing and services. On-X group devotes significant resources to the standardization activities. EdelWeb also possesses an advanced client implementation to test time stamping authorities. ON-X Group "security department" also has a long and in-depth expertise with open source software both as a user and a contributor. Direct contribution ON-X will act as the leader of the integration WP6 workpackage and will bring its experience in mostly three key domains: Integration expertise; Certification, cryptography; Use and/or development of OpenSource software and standardization work. Already being a provider of PKI based solutions to its customers ON-X will capitalize on the EU-PKI project results to improve these solutions and to disseminate the project results.
	EADS An EADS Group company, EADS Telecom is a worldwide supplier of secured telecommunications networks for Defence, Public Safety and civil secure applications, based on civilian technologies. The activities are based around EADS Defence and Security Networks, spearhead of the Group, reinforced by EADS subsidiaries: EADS Defence and Security Networks ; SYCOMORE; MATRANET; Cogent and two subsidiary companies of Nortel Networks (Matra Nortel Communications France and Nortel Networks Germany). The target clients of EADS Telecom are : Ministries of the Interior, national or regional police forces, civil security, military infrastructures, companies, and any organisation which has a need for secure telecommunications. Direct contribution EADS Telecom strongly believes that one of the key points for the deployment of large e-business applications is strong user authentication. This authentication will be made available to different products through compliance with PKI standards and the use of devices like Smart Cards or tokens. EADS Telecom proposes to participate on the Workpackage "Integration". Indeed, the company, who has a strong experience in PKI architecture since 5 years, will benefit from EuropePKI project to bring its expertise in the global architectural aspects of the libre software Public Key Infrastructure during the whole project.
» Demonstration (WP7)
	Certinomis CERTINOMIS is a subsidiary of La Poste and SAGEM. It is a service provider company whose mission is to set up and manage a range of on-line services. It has completed the setup of its own PKI infrastructure, based on SAGEM technology, and all the related implementation activities. As the first French Certification Authority, CERTINOMIS is providing certificate services to those companies involved in the frame of their relationship with French Administration as well as consumers requiring confidence for on-line applications. CERTINOMIS is also participating to the True-Vote IST Program. As a trusted services provider, CERTINOMIS operates PKI platforms on behalf of third-parties acting as Cas. CERTINOMIS strategy being based on partnership, many actors have now joined CERTINOMIS for certificate distribution and promotion, such as Credit Mutuel or Worms banks, La Poste, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Direct contribution With regards to the EuropePKI project, CERTINOMIS will be involved at the top-level of the development process: Requirement and specification (CERTINOMIS will make available his valuable expertise in the following domains: security architecture, distributed architecture, open architecture) Demonstration
	Intesa Intesa is an Italian company, part of the IBM group, which has already developed the software to exploit the digital signature in the private sector and that has been certified by the Italian Authority, AIPA, as a Certification Authority for the Public Administration. INTESA S.p.A. (219 employees year 2000, 71 billion liras year 2000 revenue) is present in the IT market since 1987 providing e-business services to around 4000 enterprises from its Server Farm. INTESA strengthened its presence in the Business Process Integration solutions offering. The main offerings of INTESA are: EDI and EBI (Electronic Business Integration); Application in the Electronic Procurement Services; The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) developed to become one of the Italian Certification Authorities; Corporate Banking (CBK) services for all payment systems; Outsourcing for Internet Service Providers (ISP), Application Service Providers (ASP) and Telecommunication Companies. Direct contribution As a key partner of CERT provide certification services demonstration to Italian Administration and othe private companies demonstrate the ability of EuropePKI to operate with another PKI operated by CERTINOMIS in France.
» Guideline for security and homologation activities (WP8)
	AQL AQL is a French software Company subsidiary of Silicomp Group. AQL grew in the core of the Rennes Atalante Technopole. AQL provides Information Technology (IT) services and solutions, based on its skills in four major areas: technical software engineering, information systems engineering, quality and project management, information systems security.It is well known as Information Technology Security Evaluation Facility (ITSEF) for its activities in IT Security: consulting, expertise, evaluation on the base of ITSEC and Common Criteria standards. AQL Security laboratory is officially agreed by French authorities.< AQL has been involved in several European R&D projects such as: EDID, CABSINET, WINE, SMART-EC, EDIDON, IMPACT, MKBEEM… Direct contribution QL will bring all its knowledge to support partners involved in the tasks of specification, implementation and integration to take into account the Evaluation approach. Furthermore, AQL has a strong expertise in the field of information technology security with a specialized team of around forty experts. We will also bring our skills on developing software material for security components like a lightweight PKI for internal use and a token system for mutual identication on different web sites, software component soon released on open source package.