The charter of the Application Guidelines Subcommittee is to execute the Application Guidelines Implementation Plan adopted by the OASIS PKI TC.

In accordance with this charter, and with the recent approval of the OASIS PKI TC, this subcommittee has initiated a project in 2005, to identify - or create, if one does not exist - standards to enable the use of PKI for digitally signing, encrypting, or both, individual transactions within applications, so that the integrity and confidentiality of transactions are maintained, independent of transmission and storage media.

The charter of the Application Guidelines Subcommittee is to execute the Application Guidelines Implementation Plan adopted by the OASIS PKI TC. In accordance with this charter, and with the recent approval of the OASIS PKI TC, this subcommittee has initiated a project in 2005, to identify - or create, if one does not exist - standards to enable the use of PKI for digitally signing, encrypting, or both, individual transactions within applications, so that the integrity and confidentiality of transactions are maintained, independent of transmission and storage media. This subcommittee will define APIs, create papers, toolkits and sample applications to promote the use of such a standard, when completed.

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