The Entrust/PKIÒ family of security products and solutions protects the privacy, integrity, and authenticity of information communicated among workstations within a network. Privacy is achieved through EntrustÆs secure encryption and decryption algorithms. Integrity and authenticity (the assurances that neither the data nor the identity of the sender have been altered) are achieved through digital signatures.

Many of EntrustÆs security functions (like encryption and digital signing) are performed by a security kernel referred to as Entrust/Engine™. Entrust/Toolkit provides a straight-forward portable application programming interface (API) to the Entrust/Engine software. Through this interface, software developers can easily integrate Entrust's security functions into their own applications.

The Entrust/Toolkit™ Java™ Edition is a fast, cost-effective way for building SSL, PKIX, PKCS and Entrust-Ready™ security applications. Implemented entirely in Java, developers can easily add flexible, modular security services for hashing, encrypting and signing, with X.509 certificates and CRLs, and of course, full support for Entrust/ PKI™, the world's leading solution for securing enterprise public-key infrastructures (PKI).

The power of the Java language is in its portability across Operating System environments. As a Java implementation the Entrust/Toolkit Java Edition does not have any platform constraints.