Craig Mundie, Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer, used his April 8 keynote address at RSA Conference 2008 to introduce End to End Trust, a Microsoft initiative built on authenticating identities and securing Web-based transactions and communications.

"We don't want this to be interpreted as a Microsoft play. We're saying that these are the concepts that we generally support and we've put them together in this white paper and we're asking the industry to talk about it...”

— George Stathakopoulos, general manager of security response, Microsoft, quoted in eWeek article

Craig Mundie's End to End Trust keynote address from the conference is available as webcast or transcript. Microsoft's press release provides an overview, and a related eWeek article frames the issue for a broader audience. The real goods, including the cornerstone whitepaper, are at www.microsoft.com/endtoendtrust.