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To: leigh aulper who wrote (910)	10/19/2001 4:43:50 AM
From: cicak	Respond to of 928

Leigh - are you still in AHR ?

To: leigh aulper who wrote (910)	10/29/2001 8:48:27 AM
From: leigh aulper	Respond to of 928

Hifn Brings Security to Conexant Home Network Processors LOS GATOS, Calif., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadband security intellectual property (IP) owned by network security and flow classification market leader Hifn(TM) (Nasdaq: HIFN) will be used in conjunction with the Conexant Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNXT), family of home network processors (HNP) to create joint reference designs, it was announced today as part of an agreement between the two companies. (Photo: newscom.com ) "This marks the first time that Hifn has entered into a strategic relationship with its intellectual property," says Chris Kenber, Hifn chairman and CEO. "The home network processor and broadband arenas are perfect for such an arrangement because they gives us a stake in a rapidly growing market, while we develop next generation products in security and flow classification. Conexant is without question best equipped to service the volume requirements of the broadband market." "This is a classic case of functionality and time to market issues coming together," says Peter Kempf, vice president of business development and technology planning for Conexant's Personal Computing Division. "We are able to immediately offer the Hifn security solution in the home networking and broadband markets by using their existing parts." The Hifn 79XX security processor series takes over the burden of performing security functions from the highly integrated CPUs commonly used in routers and digital subscriber line (DSL) modems, such as the Conexant HNP and xDSL products. The net result is that the CPU is allowed to support the computational requirements of the IPSec protocol that most secure networks use, while the Hifn processor performs security algorithms such as triple data encryption standard (3-DES) encryption and LZS(R) compression. Security is emerging as a major requirement in broadband applications due to the "always on" nature of DSL and cable modems, which provide hackers with opportunities for mischief. The 79XX processors perform multi-algorithm acceleration on a single chip, with a powerful on-board IKE processor that can handle the 2048-bit key lengths that are generally deemed all but unbreakable. Supported protocols include IPSec, IPPCP, PPTP, L2TP and PPP. Algorithms that can be performed by the 79XX include LZS and MPPC compression; DES, 3-DES and RC4 Encryption; SHA-1 and MD5 Authentication. The 790XX also generates the true random numbers that are an essential part of the public key infrastructure. Symmetric and public key processing is performed concurrently to ensure non-stop performance.

To: leigh aulper who wrote (910)	12/17/2001 8:51:48 AM
From: leigh aulper	Respond to of 928

RSA Security Helps Create Solution to Secure Wireless LANs Expertise and Leadership in Wireless Market Helps Create New 'Fast Packet Keying' Technology for WEP Environments BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA Security Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS - news), the most trusted name in e-security®, today announced that it has helped create a secure solution for the broken encryption standard in WEP (Wireless Equivalent Privacy) environments. The IEEE 802.11 committee has accepted the new ``Fast Packet Keying'' technology created by RSA Security and Hifn(TM) (Nasdaq: HIFN - news), a market leader in network security and flow classification. The ``Fast Packet Keying'' solution is customized to the hardware environment of wireless LAN products, designed to allow vendors to offer the highest levels of data protection without replacing wireless LAN hardware and to preserve interoperability. ``Fast Packet Keying,'' a new technology based on the RC4® algorithm, is designed to help organizations securely fix the WEP encryption standard. This new WEP solution, developed by RSA Security, Hifn and other members of the 802.11 committee, is designed to generate a unique RC4 key for each data packet sent over the wireless LAN. This solution is intended to be distributed as a software or firmware patch by wireless LAN vendors, allowing their customers to quickly update the existing vulnerable equipment. It has been widely reported that the WEP protocol -- the standard that outlines how data will be encrypted on the 802.11 wireless LAN -- was implemented in a way that makes it vulnerable to attack. This poses serious risks for businesses that have deployed wireless LANs because any confidential data -- financial transactions, credit card numbers and a company's proprietary information -- that is flowing over these networks can be compromised or exposed. WEP implementations currently deployed in wireless LAN hardware today use RSA Security's RC4 algorithm for encryption. The attacks against WEP were not a result of a weakness of the RC4 algorithm, but instead a weakness in how WEP derived RC4 keys for different data packets from a secret shared between wireless clients and access points. Simply put, the keys for different packets were too similar. Hackers could exploit this similarity to extract information about the shared secret after analyzing a modest number of packets. Once the shared secret was discovered, a malicious hacker could decrypt data packets being passed along the exposed network. ``Fast Packet Keying'' is designed to avoid the similarities in the packet keys by providing a rapid way to derive unrelated RC4 keys from a shared secret. ``With the incorporation of 'Fast Packet Keying,' organizations can safely turn to wireless networks for operational flexibility and efficiency without sacrificing the integrity of their systems,'' said Doug Whiting, Ph.D., chief scientist at Hifn. ``RSA Security has long been integral both to security architecture and standards, and we were pleased to work with them and share our combined knowledge and expertise. The wireless market now has a strong security solution that is designed to create a secure, interoperable pipeline between the wired network and wireless clients.'' ``RSA Security is pleased to have worked with Hifn to quickly develop a new technology to solve a crucial security vulnerability in the wireless LAN market,'' said Scott Schnell, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development. ``Strong security is always the starting point for any wireless business environment, and by securing WEP, businesses can now feel comfortable extending their processes onto wireless LANs.''