Saturn & Intel Investors - Another BRICK in the ITanium wall - RSA Security is customizing its secure Crypto & transaction software for Intel's IA64 platform !
"RSA Security Optimizes Security Software Components for Intel's(R) Itanium(TM) Processor"
"Intel's IA-64 architecture incorporates unique features to provide breakthrough performance on RSA algorithms in SSL authentication. These features include massive resources for security performance: many functional units, large number of registers, and a fully pipelined integer multiply-add."
The ITanium - and IA64 Architecture - may be an INDUSTRY STANDARD PLATFORM before the first commercial versions of the CPU and systems ever ship !
AMD's 64 bit SludgeHumper may be dead before they even hire the design team !
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SOURCE: RSA Security Inc.
RSA Security Optimizes Security Software Components for Intel's(R) Itanium(TM) Processor
RSA BSAFE(R) SSL-C and RSA BSAFE Crypto-C Products Designed to Accelerate Transactions in E-Commerce Environment
SAN JOSE, Calif., RSA CONFERENCE 2000, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA Security Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS - news), the most trusted name in e-security, today announced that it is optimizing the next versions of its popular RSA BSAFE® SSL-C and RSA BSAFE Crypto-C security software components for the Intel® Itanium(TM) processor. RSA BSAFE SSL-C and RSA Crypto-C products are the first announced security development kits (SDKs) with cryptographic software specifically designed to achieve greater performance using the Intel Itanium processor, intended to boost the speed of e-commerce transactions on heavily loaded servers. RSA Security is working closely with Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC - news) to optimize the RSA BSAFE SSL-C and RSA Crypto-C security components to ensure their superior performance and availability to software developers before the Intel Itanium processor release. The new RSA BSAFE products are scheduled for availability in the second quarter of 2000.
Intel's IA-64 architecture incorporates unique features to provide breakthrough performance on RSA algorithms in SSL authentication. These features include massive resources for security performance: many functional units, large number of registers, and a fully pipelined integer multiply-add.
''RSA Security and Intel have worked closely together to design technologies that help software developers create secure applications on this exciting new platform,'' said Scott Schnell, senior vice president of marketing for RSA Security. ''The Intel Itanium processor promises a quantum leap in performance over existing architectures, and our new RSA BSAFE components will help even more through specific encryption and digital signature optimizations.''
''Intel congratulates RSA Security's accomplishment in fine tuning RSA BSAFE's algorithms using software pipelining and other IA-64 capabilities,'' said Ron Curry, director of marketing for Intel's IA-64 Processor Division. ''The combination of Intel's Itanium(TM) processor with RSA Security's software will address the rapidly evolving e-business needs for secure, responsive, and customized environments.''
RSA BSAFE Crypto-C software is one of the world's best-selling cryptography engines and provides software developers with multiple algorithms and modules for adding encryption and authentication features to applications. RSA BSAFE software includes modules for popular security encryption techniques, such as RSA(TM), DES, RC2®, RC4®, RC5(TM), and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), and also supports digital signatures and certificates. RSA BSAFE Crypto-C software is designed to help developers build a wide range of secure applications -- including digitally signed forms; private Internet communications; signed, tamperproof applications; secure wireless communications and virtual private networks. RSA BSAFE Crypto-C's component architecture is designed to make it simple to integrate and able to adapt to future security standards and technologies.
RSA BSAFE SSL-C software is designed to give software developers everything they need to implement the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2 and v3) protocol, as well as the Transport Layer Security (TLS v1.0) protocol, for banking, financial services, Web publishing, government and other consumer and electronic commerce applications. RSA BSAFE SSL-C software includes extensive production quality sample code, API libraries, certificate authority components, a wide range of socket libraries, full user and API documentation plus other important features that help developers create secure SSL-enabled applications quickly and more cost-effectively.
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(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.
NOTE: BSAFE, SecurID RC2® and RC4®, are registered trademarks, and Keon, RC5, 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.
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to the anticipated release of new RSA Security 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, failure to develop or maintain strategic partner relationships, 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 and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on November 15, 1999.
SOURCE: RSA Security Inc.
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