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CEO:
Philip C. Deck
Headquarters:
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Website:
certicom.com
Investment Date:
November 1996
Overview
Certicom is the leading provider of cryptographic technology, based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC),
for computing and communications companies. Certicom's ECC implementations are enabling a new era
of secure information exchange among a wide range of computing and communication devices. ECC is
recognized as the most advanced and secure form of public-key cryptography. Certicom's fast ECC
technology is providing the strong, compact and highly efficient security demanded by complex applications
such as electronic commerce-involving such diverse components as smart cards, personal ATMs and
high-traffic web servers-and the new generation of hand-held and wireless devices. Today, Certicom
provides the world's leading manufacturers of computing and communications products with the most
comprehensive offering of ECC available anywhere. Accessible in a range of development tools designed
to speed integration, Certicom's technology enables Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to easily
build the most advanced data security technology into their products, enabling the fastest time-to-market.
An active participant in international standards organizations, Certicom provides leadership in the
standardization of ECC and other cryptographic technologies by ANSI, IEEE, ISO and other major
standards bodies. Moreover, Certicom has always been at the forefront of groundbreaking research in the
field of cryptography and has complemented this effort by sponsoring an Industrial Research Chair of
Cryptography at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
With a global focus on digital security, Certicom has situated its cryptographic research and product
development near Toronto, Ontario, and its worldwide sales and marketing operations in San Mateo,
California.
Objective
Certicom is becoming the leading provider of ECC implementations to OEMs for integration into every type
of computing environment, particularly those with severe resource constraints such as smart cards,
handheld and wireless devices. Certicom continues to partner with many of the technology leaders in its
target markets, making public-key cryptography available to computing environments where this
technology was thought to be unfeasible.
Certicom's Technology
Certicom's technology is based on more than a decade of research focused on fast, strong ECC
implementations in both software and hardware. After years of intense research, Certicom has developed
the fastest, strongest ECC implementations for the standard elliptic curve algorithms. Certicom delivers this
leading-edge technology in two ways: a software development kit (SDK) supporting all mainstream
computing platforms, and Plug-ins for emerging API frameworks such as Microsoft CAPI, Intel CDSA as well
as a comprehensive range of embedded systems and smart card platforms. Certicom's SDK and Plug-ins
perform the cryptographic schemes and mathematical computations, including public-key encryption and
digital signatures, that make advanced data security possible. Certicom's SDK and Plug-ins deliver the
strongest, fastest, most flexible cryptographic security for every environment.
The Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem (ECC) ECC has gained widespread acceptance as the technology that
has revolutionized the field of cryptography, in many instances performing hundreds of times faster than
existing cryptosystems at equivalent security levels. ECC is enabling digital security for every kind of
computing device today, with qualities that have made it the only choice for security in the future.
Offering the highest strength-per-bit of any known public-key system, ECC provides the same valuable
security benefits as other public-key systems yet at a fraction of the overhead. Certicom has developed
highly optimized implementations that leverage ECC's small key sizes and reduced computational
requirements to achieve the fastest, highest performance ECC available.
The technological advantages of Certicom's ECC are significant to applications where high cryptographic
strength, speed, and bandwidth efficiency are important factors. Examples of such applications include
wireless communications, smart cards, and electronic commerce. Certicom has played an integral role in
ECC's standardization by major international standards bodies. Today, ECC is included in numerous draft
and approved standards by IEEE, ANSI, ISO, IETF and the ATM Forum.
Customers: Licencees and partners include 3Com/Palm, Atalla, CDI, CNTC, Cylink, Entegrity Solutions,
Global Key, Infowave, Motorola, Pitney Bowes, Schlumberger, Siemens Components, SAC Technologies,
Sterling Commerce, TCC, TRW and VeriFone.
Recent News from Certicom, Inc.
9/9/98
Certicom Reports First Quarter Results; Revenue from OEM Security Solutions
Increases 85% Over Same Period in 1997
7/31/98
CERTICOM CORP. COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT
CORPORATION
7/20/98
Certicom Corp. Acquires Consensus Development Corporation; Leading Security
Providers Join to Bring Complete Security Tools to Application and Hardware
Developers
7/20/98
CERTICOM CORP. ACQUIRES CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
7/8/98
First Experimental Set Secure Electronic Transaction(tm) Pilot Approved By SETCo
Incorporates End-To-End Use Of Certicom's Security Technology
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