VeriSign to Optimize Products on the Intel© ItaniumTM Processor
IA-64 architecture to speed online trust processes
Mountain View, California, January 19, 2000 - VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), the world's leading provider of Internet trust services, announced today that is is porting and tuning it's solutions to the forthcoming Intel© Itanium? processor. The improved performance of the Intel Itanium processor is expected to speed up secure Internet transactions, whether the transactions are secured using VeriSign Global Site Services, Global Server ID for worldwide e-commerce sites, VeriSign OnSite, or any of the other trust services offered by VeriSign.
The Intel Itanium processor will be the first of a family of Intel processors delivering a 64-bit computing architecture (IA-64). Specifically, Intel Itanium processor performance can impact authentication, encryption and transaction processes that are key to the future of e-commerce and Internet applications. IA-64 offers many functional units, a large number of registers, and a fully pipelined integer multiply-add. The Intel Itanium processor can enable greater security performance than traditional solutions that require supplementary hardware acceleration.
"Securing transactions always requires more processing power than performing the same transactions with no security, yet zero security is never an option," said Stratton Sclavos, CEO of VeriSign. "The number of encrypted, trust-based services and transactions that are demanded by today's e-commerce environment has increased tremendously. The native computing power of an Intel Itanium processor will make it easier for our customers to use these services much more effectively."
"As a leading provider of trust services, VeriSign understands the growing performance challenge and how the Intel Itanium processor will speed the most CPU-intensive aspects of the certificate management process," said Mike Pope, director of enterprise software programs, Intel's Architecture Content Group. "Intel Itanium processors deliver immediate performance benefits to security algorithms, thus allowing more protected transactions at many points across the network."
About VeriSign
VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq:VRSN) is the leading provider of Internet trust services - including authentication, validation and payment - needed by Web sites, enterprises and e-commerce service providers to conduct trusted and secure electronic commerce and communications over IP networks. VeriSign's trust services for Web sites, developers and individuals are available through www.verisign.com and through a growing number of ISPs and Web hosting companies. The company's digital certificate services for enterprises and electronic commerce service providers are available through regional account representatives, resellers, and global affiliates. |
