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Another news about nCipher: nFast Adopted by Inter Clear PR Newswire - January 18, 1999 08:17 Greater Security and Flexible Key Management for High Security Certification Authority SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA Data Security Conference -- nCipher, the market leader in secure electronic commerce solutions, announced today that Inter Clear, the high security certification authority, has adopted nCipher's nFast/KM. nFast/KM, which provides secure key management facilities with powerful and flexible cryptographic acceleration, enables Inter Clear to offer its customers the fastest and most highly secure digital certificate service available. Inter Clear is one of the UK's first commercial certification authorities providing branded certification services for sectors including financial services, Internet service providers and interactive entertainment services. It provides facilities management for certificate generation, management and revocation for clients, specialising in providing these under the client's own brand name. Certificates are provided for individuals and for servers, right up to the provision of a complete closed public key infrastructure. Customers for this service include some of the UK's largest Internet service providers and high street financial institutions such as retail bank Lloyds TSB. "The nFast/KM was the only technology which met our requirements for high security with flexibility and speed," said Inter Clear managing director Bob Carter. "The fact that its security is compliant with the U.S. standard FIPS 140-1 is also very important for Inter Clear and for our customers." "The nFast/KM is the ideal product for Inter Clear," said nCipher president and CEO Alex Van Someren. "It provides greater speed for generating larger keys while providing flexible architecture for compliance with future regulations for key handling and storage. Its secure management architecture works perfectly for Inter Clear because it fits easily with Inter Clear's use of a secret sharing system to manage access and certificate generation." The nFast/KM The nFast/KM range of key management hardware solutions provide secure key management facilities with powerful and flexible cryptographic acceleration. This important addition to nCipher's range of cryptographic products provides additional secure capabilities. -- Fast, flexible and scalable performance solution -- Platform independent secure hardware module awarded FIPS 140-1 Level 2 certification -- Improved secure transaction throughput -- Plug and play integration with server and software -- Support for existing security standards -- Available both within and outside the US The nFast/KM key management capabilities include: -- Storing cryptographic keys securely -- Developing and managing key generation, storage and renewal policies -- Enforcing access control lists to limit access to keys. The nFast/KM cryptographic acceleration: -- Delivers consistent Web server performance even under high loads -- Increases throughput in certificate servers -- Reduces key-generation time in certificate issuing applications -- Manages secured access to an intranet or extranet About Inter Clear Inter Clear Services Limited is a UK company which specializes as a certification authority issuing independently authenticated digital certificates for use by individuals or organisations in secure data transmission applications. Inter Clear was established in 1996 by the Card Clear group of companies to act as a Trusted Third Party for the issue and management of Digital Certificates on behalf of businesses and individuals seeking to secure their messaging through networks. More information on Inter Clear is available at interclear.com 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, nFast/CA, nFast PCI and 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. SOURCE nCipher Inc. /CONTACT: Lauren Abeles of nCipher Inc., 781-994 4021, or labeles@ncipher.com; or Claire Dell, press office of Inter Clear, +44-1442-261199, or email:claired@icas.co.uk; or Clare Warren of Text 100, +44-181-242-4228, or clarew@text100.co.uk, for nCipher/ /Company News On-Call: prnewswire.com or fax, 800-758-5804, ext. 134498/ /Web site: ncipher.com interclear.com Headlines Previous Story Next Story %CPR %MLM SDTI NN V%PRN P%PRN