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TrustMe Security, a provider of development platforms for secure online communication applications, today announced that it is adding support for OAuth to the TrustMe Security API.

OAuth is an open protocol that enables secure API authentication for web, mobile and desktop applications using a standard method. The protocol gives service provider developers access to their data on OAuth compatible services while protecting their account credentials. Supporting OAuth is ensuring that TrustMe is working with developers to easily work with the best available open protocols and standards.

“With only about six per cent of all Facebook applications averaging at least 500 active users per day TrustMe wants to ensure that developers have access to the tools they need to easily and efficiently develop applications for all online communication platforms,” said Mike Mullen, CTO of TrustMe Security. “Consumers need to feel confident that the applications they are using are safe and secure. Supporting open protocols like OAuth will help developers feel confident in the security they are offering with TrustMe’s API.”

TrustMe empowers developers to add security and privacy to online communication platforms such as email, social networks (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.), instant messaging and VoIP. Developers may access TrustMe’s Public Key Name Service (PKNS) using a REST-based API. The PKNS allows applications and web sites to encrypt communications and limit the disclosure of a person’s personal information to only that person’s trusted contacts.

“OAuth is an emerging, community-driven open protocol that is essential to lowering the cost of doing the right thing when it comes to helping people share their information between web services in a safe and easy way,” said Chris Messina, Open Source Advocate-at-Large. “That TrustMe should adopt this protocol speaks to their foresight and good intentions when it comes to securely delivering people’s private and personal information wherever it needs to go.”

While attending the F8 Conference this week in San Francisco, the TrustMe team will be meeting with Facebook developers to gain insight and feedback on additional open protocols and standards developers are relying on as well as the TrustMe API. TrustMe is dedicated to providing the developer community with the most complete and easy-to-use development tools to secure online communication applications. The TrustMe API is available for free at www.trustmesecurity.com.

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Looking for more information? You can contact Drew at TrustMe at 506 860 6600 or our fantastic media rep, Natalie Sauvé from High Road Communications at 613 688 1187.