Hardware Security Modules. (Security Products).nCipher plc have announced nForce and nShield Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) supporting the Advanced Encryption Standard (cryptography, algorithm) Advanced Encryption Standard - (AES) The NIST's replacement for the Data Encryption Standard (DES). The Rijndael /rayn-dahl/ symmetric block cipher, designed by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, was chosen by a NIST contest to be AES. (AES) a new cryptographic algorithm recently announced by the United States' National Institute of Standards and Technology National Institute of Standards and Technology, governmental agency within the U.S. Dept. of Commerce with the mission of "working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards" in the national interest. (NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. ). The AES, based on the Rijndael algorithm See AES. , defines a mechanism for-establishing cross-vendor interoperability in applications requiring highly secure encryption of data. NCipher's product architecture was designed from its inception to be flexible and modular in order to exploit technological advances such as the Rijndael algorithm. Through this, nCipher has been able to make its AES-compatible nForce and nShield HSMs commercially available. www.ncipher.com |
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