Less succinctly, NTD provided:
- Data formats defined using XML Schemas (XSD) and built around the e-Government schema initiatives
- Full Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) providing Code Signing, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) over HTTP and SSL and Client Certificates for XML Digital Signatures
- Secure portal for Reporters for sending Signed, Encrypted and XML Enveloped data
- Client side automation components (ActiveX, .NET and Java) to sign, encrypt and send data via a secure TCP connection
- Administration portal enabling report tracking and reporter security credential administration
- Web server framework infrastructure for data virus scanning, identification, validation and packaging for delivery, via secure TCP, to the TPR servers
- Distribution service, based on XML enveloping of the incoming data to the TPR servers