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To: Norm Demers who wrote (1604)	9/6/1999 5:46:00 PM
From: D. K. G.	Respond to of 1614

Six Technologies To Make A Bulletproof Web September 6, 1999 9:24 AM ET zdnet.com The Internet didn't just magically appear, and it won't just magically get better. Whether it's creating a simple appliance to dial into the Net, or distributing memory in unseen places to speed up content delivery, a network of networks is a living, breathing thing. And it is given life by living, breathing beings - human engineers, programmers and technologists. Here are six technologies that will transform the Net in the next four years - and the people who are helping speed their arrival. Are you who you say you are? When Victor Chang was working on Apple Computer's Open Collaboration Environment in 1991 and 1992, one of the things he needed was a way to enable participants to identify themselves in an online session without affording anyone the opportunity to posture as somebody else. In solving that problem, he adopted RSA Data Security's approach to establishing digital identities as a way to authenticate collaborators. The basic method was laid down by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman at Stanford University in 1975-78 when they proposed matching a public key, assigned to an individual, with a private key held in strict confidence. With a private key and public key encryption, a message could be unlocked only at its intended destination. RSA was an early implementer of such key encryption - relying on a method known as a certificate server, used to verify the identity of a message recipient. Chang became conversant in its uses as he worked on the Apple project. Two years later, RSA President Jim Bidzos hired him to supervise RSA's staff of six engineers. Chang and his team undertook the work that would give the Internet several of the tools needed to implement credit-card orders and financial transactions, and to secure exchanges of information. The RSA tool kit, Bsafe, gave application developers a means of implementing RSA public key encryption in their systems. Among the users of the tool kit were Microsoft and Netscape Communications, which built a certificate recognition capability into their respective Internet Explorer and Navigator browsers. Among other things, the tool kit implemented RC4, an encryption algorithm running across Secure Sockets Layer, developed by Netscape. SSL used the RSA-based authentication method of recognizing a party's digital identity, and RC4 to encrypt and decrypt the accompanying transaction or communication. SSL has grown to become the leading security protocol of the Net. Adopted by the Internet Engineering Task Force as a core technology, it has been merged with other protocols and authentication methods into Transport Layer Security. Chang and his development team, which now numbers 60 engineers, "indirectly created the framework for people to conduct e-commerce over the Internet," he says. - Charles Babcock

To: Norm Demers who wrote (1604)	9/12/1999 10:00:00 PM
From: E Newman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1614

SDTI is slowly making a nice run, are we being discovered? The Chart looks like we will see a new 52 week high pretty soon. good luck to all longs. Shorts will start covering once we break $30.00, and we have a few million of them.

To: Norm Demers who wrote (1604)	9/13/1999 8:06:00 AM
From: Roy F	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1614

Industry Leaders Applaud Debut of RSA Security Check Point, Compaq, Novell and Sun Recognize RSA Security's Expertise, Leadership and Global Reach as Enabler for e-Business September 13, 1999 12:07 AM Eastern Time BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The debut of RSA Security Inc., the integration of RSA Data Security and Security Dynamics Technologies, Inc. SDTI , was applauded by industry leaders engaged in e-business. Citing RSA Security's technical expertise, leadership and global reach, these industry leaders support the efforts of the company to drive the market for software components that secure electronic data. RSA Security's new corporate name and identity conclude an integration strategy to extend the company's leadership in the e-security market. The new name reflects the unified expertise and strategic direction of its founding organizations, and its commitment to remaining a leader of the e-security industry. (See today's announcement, "Announcing RSA Security Inc.") "We have strong ongoing partnerships with both RSA and Security Dynamics and are excited by today's announcement," said Asheem Chandna, vice president of marketing and business development for Check Point Software Technologies CHKP . "We look forward to a continued strong partnership with RSA Security that provides our joint customers with best-of-breed products with the highest interoperability and integration." "RSA Security is both a pioneer -- they've been a clear leader in public key infrastructure dialog and standards bodies -- and a critical business and technology partner," said Bill Ferguson, marketing director at Compaq's Atalla Security Products. "RSA Security has helped us to evolve our security solutions so that we are not only interoperable between Compaq's own products, but are interoperable between all products and solutions across the industry." "As one of the world's leading users of RSA Security public-key cryptography and strong authentication technology, Novell is pleased to see the company emerge as a unified force in the e-security industry," said Chris Stone, senior vice president of corporate strategy and development of Novell. "By building RSA security technologies on top of Novell's industry-leading directory platform -- NDS -- customers, through the directory, will now have a centrally managed security solution." "Today's announcement should help to enhance enterprise trust in security solutions that are necessary for e-commerce, as well as for businesses to succeed in the race to dot-com the enterprise," said Roland Jones, senior product manager for Java platform security at Sun Microsystems. "We support RSA Security's renewed efforts in helping to create the kind of security infrastructure from which everyone will benefit." About RSA Security Inc. RSA Security Inc., The Most Trusted Name in e-Security(TM), 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. As the global integration of Security Dynamics and RSA Data Security, RSA Security has the proven leadership, innovative technology and systems experience to address the changing security needs of e-business and bring trust to the new, online economy. RSA Security can be reached at rsasecurity.com . Note: RSA Security will begin trading on the Nasdaq National Market under the ticker symbol RSAS when the market opens on Tuesday, September 14, 1999. BSAFE and SecurID are registered trademarks, and Keon, RSA and The Most Trusted Name in e-Security are trademarks of RSA Security Inc. All other products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies. SOURCE RSA Security Inc.