Chrysalis-ITS and CertCo Announce PKI Product Integration; CertCo Chooses Industry Standard Chrysalis-ITS Luna CA3 For Hardware Security and Backup.Business/Technology Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 22, 1999 Chrysalis-ITS(R) and CertCo(R) today announced the integration of Chrysalis-ITS Luna(TM) CA3 and Luna 2 tokens within CertCo's family of 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 products, including CertCo's recently announced CertValidator product. The solution provides financial institutions and corporations an exceptional level of hardware-based security. This technology integration demonstrates a trend in the Public Key Infrastructure market, to increase PKI software security with hardware root-key protection. Both CertCo and Chrysalis-ITS will be displaying their respective products during the RSA Conference The RSA Conference is a Cryptography-related conference held annually in the San Francisco Bay Area. The RSA Conference started in 1991 as a forum for cryptographers to gather and share the latest knowledge and advancements in the area of Internet security. in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , CA. "We chose Chrysalis-ITS because of its leadership position within the hardware security market," said Peter Lieberwirth, vice president of engineering of CertCo. "The Chrysalis-ITS PKI family of products provide CertCo with secure, lowest risk and fastest time-to-market mechanism to serve our customer requirements." 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 by US and Canadian governments, Luna CA3, is the industry's most widely adopted solution for protecting, backing up and storing root signing keys of a certificate management system in hardware so they are invulnerable in·vul·ner·a·ble adj. 1. Immune to attack; impregnable. 2. Impossible to damage, injure, or wound. [French invulnérable, from Old French, from Latin to attack. "As more and more financial institutions deploy trusted digital certificate issuance and certificate management systems, the market is demanding higher levels of security," said Blair Canavan, vice president, business development, Chrysalis-ITS. "The addition of our FIPS-validated products to CertCo's PKI products means digital certificate management without compromise." CertCo's CertValidator includes several capabilities that provide organizations the ability to manage certificates on-line. CertValidator is an OCSP OCSP Online Certificate Status Protocol OCSP Off-Campus Study Program responder and repository that stores the status of digital certificates and allows certificate issuers or other supporting entities the ability to make real-time certificate status information available to trading partners engaged in E-business. About CertCo CertCo is the leading on-line risk assurance authority providing the first complete technology and business solution supporting large-scale globally secure e-Business. CertCo enables corporations and trust institutions to safely conduct global high value transactions over open networks. CertCo's integrated products feature electronic authentication Electronic authentication (E-authentication) is the process of establishing confidence in user identities electronically presented to an information system. E-authentication presents a technical challenge when this process involves the remote authentication of individual people and assurance systems based on PKI technologies. Products include CertAuthority(tm), CertValidator(tm) and Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . CertCo's headquarters are located at 55 Broad Street, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY 10004 212) 709-8900 with a regional office at 100 Cambridge Park Drive, Cambridge, Mass., 02140, and an affiliate office in London, England. For more information, please visit our website at www.certco.com. About Chrysalis-ITS Chrysalis-ITS, Inc. is a leading provider of high performance security processing products for the networking and e-commerce industry. Its industry leading Luna technology is uniquely positioned to enhance the trust and performance of Certification Authority See CA. , Secure Socket Layer and Virtual Private Networking applications. Chrysalis-ITS' advanced cryptographic technology is used in some of the most widely known enterprise security solutions from Baltimore Technologies, CertCo, Check Point Software Technologies Inc., Digital Signature Trust, Entrust Technologies Inc., IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Netscape, Nokia, VeriSign, and Xcert International Inc. The company's website is www.chrysalis-its.com. Chrysalis-ITS and Chrysalis-ITS logo and Luna are trademarks or registered trademarks of Chrysalis-ITS, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright (c) 1999 CertCo, Inc., 55 Broad Street New York, NY 10004 U.S.A. All rights reserved. CertCo, its logo, CertAuthority, CertValidator, CertGuardian, Multi-Step Signing and/or other CertCo products referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of CertCo. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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