Arcot Systems

Date:   Thursday , November 01, 2007

Software-based PKI authentication technology that provides convenient and cost effective identity assurance that makes smart cards and one-time-password tokens for secure e-payment redundant. Arcot’s authentication technology is embedded in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader to enable consumer authentication and digital signature. Arcot System’s technology is based on its one-of-its-kind patented ‘cryptographic camouflage’. The ten-year-old company co-founded by Ram Varadarajan in 1997 has revenue of $10 million.