User:Drcarver/ARX Algorithmic Research Ltd

ARX (Algorithmic Research Ltd.) is a digital security company headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with offices in the UK, the Netherlands, Australia and Israel. It is the creator of CoSign by ARX, a digital signature technology, along with related digital signature security technology products.

The ARX digital signature products are based on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology, with the digital signatures resulting from a cryptographic operation that creates a ‘fingerprint’ unique to both the signer and the content, so that they cannot be copied, forged or tampered with. This process provides proof of signer identity, data integrity and the non-repudiation of signed documents, all of which can be verified without the need for proprietary verification software.

The company’s CoSign solution integrates into a large range of document management and workflow automation systems and is intended to streamline workflow processes requiring signatures. ARX partners with document management and workflow solution providers including SharePoint, OpenText, Oracle, Alfresco, Nintex and K2.

Industries of focus include life science (particularly research and clinical trials ), engineering, legal and federal/local governments. ARX clients are based in North America, Africa, Europe and Asia-Pacific. In Italy, Cosign is used by the Ministry of Defence, RAI, Senate, Court of Accounts, State Police and Bank of Italy ). It is also used by the European Court of Human Rights to digitize and streamline their application process.

ARX solutions have been validated for security standards such as NIST FIPS 140-2 level 3, FIPS 186 and ETSI TS 101 733. In 2013, Cosign was named “the strongest digital signature solution” in the Forrester Wave: E-Signatures, Q2 2013 report. In August 2014, CoSign received Common Criteria EAL4+ certification, thus becoming the first remote / server-side digital signature solution to be fully compliant with the EU’s newly enacted Electronic Identification and Trust Services regulation for Electronic Transactions in the Internal Market (eIDAS). ARX solutions also comply with ESIGN, UETA, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, SOX, HIPAA, USDA, among many other signature-related country- and industry-specific laws and regulations.