To: pat mudge who wrote (7153 ) 10/28/1998 11:27:00 AM From: zbyslaw owczarczyk Respond to of 18016
Baltimore Technologies to Integrate nCipher's Cryptographic Accelerators Business Wire - October 28, 1998 08:52 WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 1998--nCipher, Inc., a global leader in secure electronic commerce solutions, today announced a strategic alliance with Dublin, Ireland-based Baltimore Technologies, a world leader in cryptographic toolkits and PKI solutions. Under this agreement, Baltimore will provide nCipher's leading-edge, cryptographic and acceleration product offering as an integrated solution with its UniCERT public key certification platform. The partnership with Baltimore offers nCipher an established and internationally recognized development partner in the growing market for digital certificates and public key infrastructures. nCipher's nFast/KM and nFast/CA advanced cryptographic accelerators and secure key management tools provide enhanced physical security and safe key storage for the UniCERT product, enabling the exchange of encrypted data in a safe environment. "Digital certificates are growing in importance as a means of securing on-line business transactions," said Alex van Someren, chief executive officer of nCipher. "nCipher's partnership with Baltimore Technologies offers businesses around the world the combination of leading certificate software technology and strong, hardware-based physical security." "Baltimore Technologies looks forward to working closely with nCipher to deliver the highest level of security and state-of-the-art technology to the marketplace," commented Fran Rooney, chief executive officer of Baltimore Technologies. "We strongly believe that nCipher's industry expertise and high performance hardware systems combined with Baltimore Technologies' advanced product suite will provide a secure and trustworthy Internet banking service to business customers." About Baltimore Technologies Baltimore Technologies is a world leader in the provision of information security products and systems. Its products include solutions for Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), secure email, Web & E-commerce. Baltimore Technologies also provides a range of C++ and Java cryptography toolkits and supplies design and consultancy services to the IT security industry. Its headquarters are located in the International Financial Services Center in Dublin. Baltimore Technologies was founded in 1976 and is privately held. UniCERT is a leading CA product; offering advanced policy-based digital certificate management within a PKI. This award winning software was the core technology used in the Digital Signing Ceremony between President Clinton and Prime Minister Bertie Ahern of Ireland on September 4, 1998. Baltimore Technologies operates the EUROTRUST Trusted Third Party (TTP) infrastructure for electronic commerce throughout Europe in conjunction with commercial and industry partners. EUROTRUST is operated on behalf of and funded by the European Commission. About nCipher nCipher develops products that simplify the use of cryptography in Internet security and electronic commerce applications. Its nFast solution line was named a Hot Product for 1998 by Data Communications magazine and recently highlighted in ComputerLetter. nFast is the proven fastest accelerator available and the only accelerator and key management solution available to customers in North and South America, Europe and Asia. The company was founded in 1996 by Alex and Dr. Nicko van Someren. The van Someren brothers were included in the 1998 London Sunday Times "Who Will Be Who in the Millennium" report, which recognized them as movers, shakers and trend setters for the next century. The company has offices outside Boston, Massachusetts; San Mateo, California and in Cambridge, England. nCipher's corporate investors include Security Dynamics Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SDTI) and Canadian networking giant Newbridge Networks Corporation (NYSE: NN). nCipher has partnerships with leading computer security and electronic commerce companies, including RSA Data Security, Inc., Netscape and C2Net. More details on nCipher and its products are available at ncipher.com , or by sending electronic mail to: ussales@ncipher.com. nCipher, nFast, nFast/KM and nFast/CA are trademarks or registered trademarks of nCipher, Inc. in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: nCipher, Inc. Lauren Abeles, 781/994-4021 labeles@ncipher.com or Schwartz Communications, Inc. Dan Ring, Stephanie Fraleigh, 781/684-0770 danr@schwartz-pr.com stephanief@schwartz-pr.com