The present invention is a method, system and article of manufacture that
provides near simultaneous delivery of information over a packet routed
network architecture in an inexpensive, fast, global, bi-directional
communication medium, while having means to verify receipt of a
transmission. The present invention utilizes a local mainframe
distributing encrypted client submissions over a network such as the
internet to a number of customers having a receiver. The present
invention includes delivering a relatively small decryption key over the
same network so that a customer is able to decrypt the previously
received encrypted client submission and display the decrypted version
simultaneously relative to the other customers.