January 17, 2003

Inexpensive Supplier of Digital Security for Colleges Is Going Out of Business

By FLORENCE OLSEN

The Corporation for Research and Educational Networking, a nonprofit organization that has championed the use of digital certificates, electronic identifiers for security, is going out of business. A sharp decline in membership has made it impossible for the group to continue operating, according to its Board of Trustees.

The corporation is known as CREN (http://www.cren.net). Since 1999, it has been a low-cost source of digital certificates for colleges, which have used the

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