RSA SECURITY EXPANDS WIRELESS SECURITY OFFERINGS
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Optimized Security Protocol Components Designed to Provide Interoperable Bridge Between Wireless, Wired Worlds
BEDFORD, Mass., January 13, 2000 – In advance of next week's RSA Conference 2000, RSA Security Inc. (NASDAQ: RSAS), the most trusted name in e-security, today announced two new security protocol components specifically optimized for wireless and embedded applications. RSA BSAFE® SSL-C and RSA BSAFE WTLS (Wireless Transport Level Security) together offer developers a complete set of top-quality, fully supported security tools designed to protect wireless applications and provide the critical interoperable bridge between the wireless and wired worlds.
RSA BSAFE SSL-C 1.1 is designed to deliver the same security, interoperability and time-to-market benefits that companies such as Symbian already enjoy using the current version of this industry-leading security protocol component, but in a reduced-size, resource-friendly version specifically geared to the demanding requirements of wireless and embedded devices.
RSA BSAFE WTLS 1.0 is designed to provide a complete WTLS-compliant protocol component developers can use to more quickly and easily build security into their WAP-enabled (Wireless Application Protocol) products and applications. Leveraging RSA Security's success in the WAP market through licenses with Nokia, Phone.com, CMG Telecommunications, and others, RSA BSAFE WTLS 1.0 is designed to provide a complete wireless security solution through its support of different wireless networks and platforms, including the Palm Computing® Platform and Microsoft® Windows® CE.
"With RSA Security's SSL components already a dominant choice for securing Internet transactions, our new wireless security components are designed to provide complete, end-to-end protection across both the wired and wireless worlds," said Scott Schnell, senior vice president of marketing at RSA Security. "RSA BSAFE SSL-C is already a widely used security protocol component among the leading wireless vendors, and our new offerings promise to further solidify our strength in this exciting market."
RSA Security has been serving the needs of the wireless industry since January 1994, when Alcatel TITN, Cincinnati Microwave, IBM, PCSI and Retix announced they were licensing RSA Security encryption and authentication technologies to build privacy into their wireless products. The Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) standard their products employed specified the use of RSA Security's RC4 symmetric stream cipher and the public-key Diffie-Hellman key negotiation techniques to authenticate users to CDPD services and encrypt transmissions to prevent hackers from listening in on cellular voice and data traffic. Numerous companies offer CDPD wireless modems for a variety of PC and handheld devices like the Palm III™ and Palm V™.
Shipping now, RSA BSAFE SSL-C offers reduced code size and run-time memory size, simplified certificate verification, key internal buffers that grow automatically as required and optimized stack usage. Compile time options are designed to allow developers to customize applications to meet the strict requirements imposed by the constrained environments typical of wireless and embedded applications. RSA Security plans to include support for WTLS certificates along with support for VeriSign's WTLS Automatic Certificate Acquisition service in future versions of SSL-C. This functionality will further assist traditional users of SSL in their migration from a pure wired world to an interoperable wired and wireless environment.
Based on SSL and TLS from the Internet community, RSA BSAFE WTLS 1.0 is designed to provide the privacy, identification, verified message integrity and non-repudiation required for secure e-commerce transactions between wireless devices and the WAP gateway to the Internet. WAP is an open, global specification empowering mobile users with easy, fast delivery of information and services through handheld digital wireless devices such as mobile phones, pagers, two-way radios and smart phones. This new component has been designed for wireless applications, incorporating a lightweight and efficient protocol that conserves bandwidth, memory and processing power.
Availability and Pricing
The RSA BSAFE SSL-C 1.1 software development kit is shipping now and costs $295. The RSA BSAFE WTLS 1.0 software development kit is expected to ship in the second quarter of 2000 at a cost of $295.
RSA Security Inc.
RSA Security Inc., The Most Trusted Name in e-Security™ helps organizations build secure, trusted foundations for e-businesses through its RSA SecurID® two-factor authentication, RSA BSAFE® encryption and RSA Keon™ public key management systems. With nearly a half billion RSA BSAFE-enabled applications in use worldwide, more than six million RSA SecurID users and almost 20 years of industry experience, RSA Security has the proven leadership and innovative technology to address the changing security needs of e-business and bring trust to the new, online economy. RSA Security can be reached at www.rsasecurity.com.
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