Data Fellows Licenses RSA Encryption Technology for its F-Secure Product Line; Agreement Integrates Data Fellows F-Secure Product Line for Unparalleled Internet Security with a Proven Encryption Technology and Opens New Markets.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 1996--Data Fellows of San Jose, CA, and Helsinki, Finland announced several new products to its market-leading F-Secure product line and the signing of an agreement for licensing RSA Data Security Inc.'s industry-leading public key encryption technology for use in its F-Secure security software.

F-Secure software products provide strong encryption, cryptographic host authentication, and integrity protection for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX based computers. All F-Secure products capitalize on an RSA-secured SSH transport layer protocol and its military strength encryption methods, such as triple-DES, Blowfish and IDEA.

It has stood up to the challenges of the most demanding customers since 1995 in tens of thousands of organizations throughout 40 countries. The SSH protocol is a proposed standard for Internet security.

Among the new products announced today are F-Secure SSH Server v1.3, F-Secure SSH UNIX, F-Secure SSH Windows, F-Secure SSH Macintosh, F-Secure VPN and F-Secure Commerce. Data Fellows, a European based company, will sell these RSA-based unmatched security products with key lengths of more than 1000 bits worldwide.

"The announced new products allow organizations to fully leverage the vast potential and new exciting business opportunities of Internet and Intranets worldwide by securing all their TCP/IP based communication, including electronic commerce applications, with easy-to-use, unparalleled protection," said Petri Laakkonen, President of Data Fellows.

"Data Fellows' F-Secure Product line can provide businesses with new possibilities in secure electronic commerce," said Jim Bidzos, President of RSA. "We're excited to be working with them."

"By encrypting interactive terminal and X-window sessions, eliminating plain-text passwords, and providing other services, the Secure Shell used in F-Secure SSH closes some of the most significant authentication and security vulnerabilities in our distributed computational environment," explains Wayne Schroeder, principal technologist and systems and security software specialist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Announced today, F-Secure SSH Windows and F-Secure SSH Macintosh provide secure remote login, X11 and TCP/IP connections over untrusted networks, such as the Internet, to Windows and Macintosh users. F-Secure VPN connects multiple separate LANs together into a secure virtual private network solution over Internet with the same unbeatable authentication and encryption as provided in F-Secure SSH. F-Secure Commerce will secure financial transactions on the Internet.

F-Secure SSH Server v1.3, F-Secure SSH Unix, and F-Secure SSH Windows are available now. F-Secure SSH Macintosh, F-Secure VPN and F-Secure Commerce will ship later this fall. The price for F-Secure SSH Server v1.3 is $495, for F-Secure SSH client software $99/seat and for F-Secure VPN $2,495 with separate volume pricing available.

About Data Fellows

Privately owned Data Fellows belongs to Data Fellows Group, the leading technology provider of data security solutions for computer networks and desktop computers.

Data Fellows' product line includes F-Secure, the market-leading Internet security and cryptography software; F-PROT Professional, one of the most respected anti-virus toolkits; and a revolutionary Vineyard groupware tool for marketing and sales people. The company has distribution partners in more than 40 countries world-wide.

About RSA Data Security, Inc.

RSA Data Security, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Security Dynamics Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SDTI), is the world's brand name for cryptography, with more than 75 million copies of RSA encryption and authentication technologies installed and in use worldwide.

RSA technologies are part of existing and proposed standards for the Internet and World Wide Web, ITU, ISO, ANSI, IEEE, and business, financial and electronic commerce networks around the globe. The company develops and markets platform-independent developer's kits and end-user products and provides comprehensive cryptographic consulting services.

Founded in 1982 by the inventors of the RSA Public Key Cryptosystem, the company is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Data Fellows F-Secure products will be on display at COMDEX/Fall'96 in Las Vegas, NV, November 18-22, on booth No. 6346.

Press announcement, and other information on Data Fellows and its F-Secure products are available via the World Wide Web at http://www.DataFellows.com.

CONTACT: Data Fellows

Petri Laakkonen, 408/244-9090 (USA and Canada)

Risto Siilasmaa, [phone] (Europe)

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http://www.DataFellows.com