Chrysalis-ITS Secures Diversinet's Next Generation Wireless Security Solution: Strategic Relationship Ensures Trusted Mobile Commerce.Business Editors OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 2000 Chrysalis-ITS has extended its broad reach in the wireless Public Key Infrastructure space, through a strategic relationship with Diversinet Corp. (Nasdaq:DVNT DVNT Deviant (record label) ). Diversinet incorporates Chrysalis-ITS' Luna CA3 product to provide secure hardware key management for its Passport Certificate Server(tm), offering mobile device users best practices for wireless digital certificate issuance. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. report in September 2000, Diversinet is the only wireless security vendor offering anonymous digital certificates, with strengths in the adaptation of conventional PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) A framework for creating a secure method for exchanging information based on public key cryptography. The foundation of a PKI is the certificate authority (CA), which issues digital certificates that authenticate the identity of technology to the authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. and anonymity policies. The Passport product allows an organization to act as its own certificate authority (CA) and tailor a PKI to the needs of its specific application. The addition of Chrysalis-ITS Luna CA3 to the product offering completes the secure solution with secure hardware key management and protection. "An integral component for trusted mobile e-commerce and PKI, Chrysalis-ITS technology provides the highest level of security at the heart of the digital certificate issuance infrastructure," said Kirk Robinson, Director of Strategic Accounts, Chrysalis-ITS. "Chrysalis-ITS' Luna CA3 product ensures trusted certificate issuance by protecting the root signing key that signs digital certificates issued by Diversinet Passport Certificate Server(TM)." "By employing Chrysalis-ITS Luna CA3 technology to protect the most sensitive keying data in a mobile PKI, Diversinet is making certain that measures taken in the wireless world to protect e-commerce equal those taken in the wired world, ensuring the delivery of high-value m-commerce transactions," said Hussam Mahgoub, Vice President, Products, Diversinet. Luna CA3 is one of the most secure and trusted root-key management devices in the Public Key Infrastructure market. Validated to Federal Information Processing Standards (standard) Federal Information Processing Standards - (FIPS) United States Government technical standards published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). 140-1 Level 3, Luna CA3 protects, backs up and stores root signing keys in for a certificate authority. By offloading sensitive cryptographic processing - key generation, verification, storage, signing and back-up - from the certificate authority server, private and sensitive keys are always safe from compromise, intruders, viruses, inadvertent erasing, and complications from system failures. Diversinet's Passport Certificate Server(TM) 4.0 is designed to support end-to-end security across a broad range of client platforms, including Palm, WinCE, RIM and SIM toolkit applications on GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) A digital cellular phone technology based on TDMA that is the predominant system in Europe, but also used worldwide. Developed in the 1980s, GSM was first deployed in seven European countries in 1992. phones. This architecture supports both current WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. (Wireless Application Protocol) and WTLS (Wireless Transport Layer Security) The security services in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). WTLS is based on TLS, the landline version that is widely used on the Internet. standards and is extendable to future WAP environments. The European market in particular will benefit from the enhanced security Luna CA3 provides to Diversinet's Passport Certificate Server, since Passport incorporates support for Short Message Service (SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. ) over GSM phones, which is a significant requirement in Europe. About Chrysalis-ITS Chrysalis-ITS, Inc. is a global leader in building Ultimate Trust(TM) systems and semiconductors that power e-business security. Chrysalis-ITS' industry leading Luna family of products accelerate virtual private networking and provide secure key management capabilities for organizations with high volume sensitive transactions. Chrysalis-ITS secures e-business transactions and communications over wired and wireless networks. Chrysalis-ITS customers include many of the world's leading financial institutions, service providers and government agencies. Chrysalis-ITS products are delivered through a global network of distributors and value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. . Founded in 1994, Chrysalis-ITS is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with offices in London, UK; Boston MA, and Mountain View, CA. About Diversinet Corp. Diversinet is enabling mobile e-commerce (m-commerce) services with its wireless security infrastructure solutions. The company has recently been confirmed by the Yankee Group (reference; The Yankee Group Report: Wireless/Mobile Technologies, Vol. 1, No. 7, September 2000, by Emily Williams
Emily Williams (born October 8, 1984 in New Zealand) is a singer who was the runner-up in the 2005 season of Australian Idol and a member of the band Young Divas. and David Berndt), as having the leading product technology for the delivery of end-to-end wireless security infrastructure solutions to wireless device makers, ASP's and operators, application software developers and network infrastructure providers. The Diversinet Passport Authorization Product(TM) provides secure authorization services over distributed network architectures. It issues digital permits, which are used to carry application specific information such as rights and privileges to authorize To empower another with the legal right to perform an action. The Constitution authorizes Congress to regulate interstate commerce. authorize v. to officially empower someone to act. (See: authority) users. Digital permit technology extends security implementations enabling organizations to authorize and validate users across a wide variety of mobile applications - including high-value financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. transactions, stock trading, wireless auctions, access control for remote applications, as well as assigning digital rights for subscription services. Diversinet's Passport Certificate Server(TM) issues digital certificates used as the basis for authenticating users in a PKI environment. Anonymity and privacy are protected through Diversinet's patented technology. For more information on Diversinet, visit the company's web site at www.dvnet.com. Chrysalis-ITS, Chrysalis-ITS logo and Luna are a trademarks or registered trademarks of Chrysalis-ITS, Inc. Diversinet, Digital Permits and Passport Certificate Server are trademarks of Diversinet Corp. All other companies and products listed herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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