Lamprey Networks and Cloakware Team Up to Provide Compliance Tool for the Digital Living Network Alliance.

New Tool Allows Product Testing for Compliance with DLNA Link Protection Guidelines

VIENNA, Va. -- Cloakware Inc., the world's leading provider of products and services to protect digital assets, and Lamprey Networks, a leader in innovative integrated compliance and interoperability testing solutions, today announced they are working together to provide the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) with a content protection compliance tool. This tool will enable members to test their products, including devices such as media players and set-top boxes, to ensure compliance with the DLNA Link Protection Guidelines.

The tool, called Link Protection Test Tool (LPTT), is Lamprey Networks' third contract for providing compliance test tools for the DLNA. Cloakware's hardened Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions serve to ensure that the LPTT meets the security requirements of the link protection license agreements, known as Robustness Rules, by ensuring they are not used as a vector for piracy.

The LPTT will test the guidelines that bind the selected content protection technologies, DTLA's Digital Transmission Content Protection for Internet Protocol (DTCP-IP), and Microsoft's Windows Media DRM for Networked Devices (WMDRM-ND), to the rest of the DLNA architecture. The LPTT can be licensed exclusively by DLNA members who wish to test their DLNA-compliant devices.

Cloakware Robustness Solutions are compliant and robust solutions that allow device OEMs and ISVs to meet the license requirements associated with these link protection standards. "Partnering with Cloakware provides DLNA with a reliable and secure testing tool that meets the link protection requirements," said Rupert Dance, program manager at Lamprey Networks. "DLNA shares a vision of networked devices in the home and beyond that provide seamless interoperability and usability for consumers and product vendors. Our relationship with Cloakware will help provide a solution that fulfills this vision."

DLNA develops guidelines, such as the DLNA Link Protection Guidelines, based on open standards to promote cross-industry digital convergence in consumer electronics, PC and mobile products. The organization's members, who include more than 220 multi-industry companies around the world, continue to commit their time and resources to develop an environment that enables the sharing of digital media and content services.

"Lamprey Networks is a proven expert on interpreting DLNA guidelines and developing test tools to ensure compliance with specific guidelines," said Alec Main, Cloakware's CTO. "Being selected by DLNA and Lamprey Networks to provide our security solution for the LPTT underscores the industry's confidence in Cloakware and our leadership position in deploying DRM and interoperability solutions."

About Lamprey Networks

Lamprey Networks, Inc. specializes in providing compliance, interoperability, system and performance test suites for emerging networking technologies. Lamprey Network's test plans and test tools are used in consumer electronics, networking, storage and HPC industries. With flexible software test solutions, Lamprey supplies test suites for a variety of design verification needs. Offerings include compliance and verification for technology startups to complete certification programs for industry initiatives. Lamprey has provided testing solutions and worked alongside industry organizations to provide certification for a number of technologies including Advanced Switching Interface (ASI), Fibre Channel, InfiniBand[TM], iWARP, iSCSI, PCI-Express and DLNA. Lamprey Networks uses industry proven tools and methods to develop solutions that eliminate the need for organizations to build test infrastructure. The quality and completeness of Lamprey Network's test suites and tools allow organizations to market their products with higher confidence, saving time and resources by enabling them to focus on their primary competencies.

About Cloakware

Cloakware is the world's leading provider of products and services to protect digital assets. The company's software protection and anti-tamper solutions protect software, media, passwords and data from piracy and unauthorized access and use. Cloakware solutions are on more than 500 million devices, protecting the assets of some of the world's largest, most recognizable and technologically advanced companies. Cloakware's patented code transformation technology takes software protection to the next-level. Unlike after-the-fact protection techniques of other security products, Cloakware's integrated software protection makes security inseparable from software. Cloakware's reverse-engineering protection combined with break-through White-Box Cryptography delivers unmatched security. Partnering with Microsoft and in collaboration with Intel, Cloakware helps consumer electronics and Fortune 1000 companies and Federal agencies all benefit from reduced development costs, improved time to market and mitigated risks. The company is headquartered in Vienna, VA, and has offices in Ottawa, Canada and the UK, and regional sales offices throughout the US.