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News January 13, 08:35 Eastern Time
RSA SECURITY EXPANDS WIRELESS SECURITY OFFERINGS OPTIMIZED SECURITY PROTOCOL COMPONENTS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE INTEROPERABLE BRIDGE BETWEEN Wireless, Wired Worlds
BEDFORD, Mass., Jan 13, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- 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(R) 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 industry leaders, 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(R) Platform and Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 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(TM) and Palm
V(TM).
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(TM) helps organizations build secure, trusted foundations
for e-businesses through its RSA SecurID(R) two-factor authentication,
RSA BSAFE(R) encryption and RSA Keon(TM) 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.
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to the
anticipated release of new products. Such statements involve a number
of risks and uncertainties. Among the important factors that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such
forward-looking statements are delays in product development, technical
difficulties, software bugs and errors, competitive pressures, changes
in customer requirements, market acceptance of new technologies,
technological changes in the computer industry and the risk factors
detailed from time to time in RSA Security's periodic reports and
registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including without limitation RSA Security's Annual Report
on Form 10-K filed on March 31, 1999.
NOTE: 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.
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CONTACT: Patrick Corman of Corman Communications, 650-326-9648, or
patrick@cormancom.com, for RSA Security Inc.; or Richard Mack of RSA Security
Inc., 781-301-5344, or rhmack@rsasecurity.com
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