HP TO TAKE CRYPTOGRAPHIC CHIPS FROM RAINBOW.Hewlett-Packard Co is to OEM cryptographic accelerator chips from Rainbow Technologies Inc for its HP 9000 servers. Irvine, California-based dongle maker Rainbow now also sells co- processors to speed up encryption, and says its PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). board CryptoSwift accelerators are capable of handling over 200 transactions per second In a very generic sense, the term Transactions Per Second refers to the number of atomic actions performed by certain entity per second. In a more restrictied view, the term is usually used by DBMS vendor and user community to refer to the number of database transactions performed , and can perform a reference RSA (1) (Rural Service Area) See MSA. (2) (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) A highly secure cryptography method by RSA Security, Inc., Bedford, MA (www.rsa.com), a division of EMC Corporation since 2006. It uses a two-part key. signature in 5 milliseconds. A 400MHz Pentium II processor would take five times longer to do the same task, according to Rainbow. HP will use the accelerator in conjunction with its secure web server (1) A server on the Web that supports one or more of the major security protocols such as SSL, SHTTP and PCT. This means that order form data from your browser is encrypted before being sent (uploaded) to the Web site, making it extremely difficult for a third party to decipher , providing a boost in performance for customers running SSL and SET security protocols for secure e-commerce applications. HP expects cryptographic accelerator cards to be in the first quarter of 1999 in the US and Canada, and is working on an agreement for worldwide exports. |
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