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Automotive market: OFTP V2 adoption is taking off
By Antoine Rizk, Product and Solution Marketing, B2B Corporate Program, Axway
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OFTP was originally designed to support the exchange of data between partners in the European automotive industry. Today, it is still the most common communication protocol within this particular industry and used by most major European Motor Manufacturers and their suppliers.
The latest version of the OFTP protocol, OFTP V2 provides all the extra security functionality for safe data exchange over the Internet. The added functionality ensures message safety between sender and receiver. Some of the previous features have also been revised and enhanced in the new OFTP V2, thus improving both usability and acceptability of OFTP across the world.
OFTP V2 brings with it major enhancements including Increased file size, Data confidentiality, Secure authentication, SSL session security and Digital signatures
OFTP v2 is gaining widespread adoption within the automotive industry, and year 2010 will see a major take off in oftp v1 replacements.
Axway is a certified OFTP2 Solution Provider. Axway OFTP2 solution implements the latest OFTP2 recommendations, including automated certificate exchange. As a core member of the Odette OFTP2 work group, Axway is one of three service providers that is qualified to conduct OFTP2 interoperability tests with other vendors on behalf of Odette.
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