NTRU Professional Services Team and Microsoft to Develop Next-Generation Computing Solutions.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 21, 2003

NTRU Launches Professional Services Unit in Collaboration

With World's Leading Software Vendor

NTRU, the information security experts today announced the formal launch of its professional service group, which will provide comprehensive security expertise to organizations worldwide. The formal launch as a business unit of NTRU's long-established professional services group will enable NTRU to more readily assist many of its world-class customers in developing secure implementations and applications. The NTRU professional service group works with clients at any stage of the design cycle to deliver fully-rounded, secure, cost-effective solutions. From system security analysis to highly optimized implementations on the most constrained platforms, NTRU provides practical security consulting services that are tailored for specific application environments.

"We applaud NTRU for creating a new professional services group and we welcome their contributions as we work to develop the Next Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB)," said John Manferdelli, general manager of the Windows Trusted Platform Infrastructures group at Microsoft Corp. NGSCB is a new security technology for the Microsoft Windows platform. It uses a unique hardware and software design to give people new kinds of security and privacy protections in an interconnected world. NGSCB will be integrated into a future version of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Microsoft and NTRU are collaborating to ensure that the technology behind NGSCB solutions will offer customers a new level of trust for mission-critical information and applications. NTRU is:

-- Providing a security analysis for a trusted computing base in

the presence of un-trusted software.

-- Working to ensure that un-trusted software and the trusted

computing base could cooperatively share secure hardware

resources without compromising the security of the other

entity.

-- Working to ensure conformance and synergy with specifications

for trusted computing hardware components developed by the

Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA). This work will

continue as new specifications are approved by TCPA's

successor organization, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG).

"We are very excited to expand our professional services practice and support Microsoft in realizing their vision of a trustworthy computing environment," said Ed King, General Manager of NTRU. "NGSCB has the potential to reduce the risks and costs of doing business and directly addresses the needs of the newly security conscious world. We are looking forward to working with Microsoft and their partners to assist them in providing applications that leverage this technology."

NTRU's professional services team is composed of experienced security analysts, engineers and cryptographers. By understanding how a product or system is used in the field NTRU can help customers assess the risks that they will encounter and collaboratively design appropriate security solutions. The NTRU team has extensive experience in analyzing and implementing solutions, both large and small, in a wide range of application areas. NTRU's key core competencies include (but not limited to):

-- High Assurance Computing: The NTRU team's expertise ranges

from system assessment to cryptographic services. NTRU's

experts stay current through research initiatives, work on

standards bodies and collaborative work with partners and

customers. Key high assurance competencies include, Microsoft

NGSCB, Trusted Computing Group (TCG) TCPA Specifications and

implementation and FIPS 140-2 product readiness assessment and

development.

-- Secure Wireless Networking: NTRU security experts have led the

development of several significant wireless networking

solutions. This work includes the development of comprehensive

security architectures for ad hoc wireless 802.15.3 and

802.15.4 networks, allowing for easy association and

disassociation of devices. At the architecture level, NTRU

consultants helped to select an appropriate security topology,

assess, design and select appropriate protocols, and enable

key exchange, bulk encryption and authentication, key rollover

and secure hand-off from one access point to another. At the

engineering level, NTRU integrated security functionality into

existing frame formats and designed appropriate key-management

interfaces.

-- Protocol Analysis and Design: NTRU security professionals can

analyze a system holistically, ensure threats are well

understood, derive security requirements and develop protocols

appropriate to the unique constraints of customer

environments. NTRU takes a collaborative approach, working

with customers and their subject matter experts to ensure a

thorough understanding of the system and its usage models.

-- Embedded Security Analysis and Design: NTRU's technical staff

has deep expertise in embedded security analysis, design and

implementation. Its research team consists of a group of

world-renowned mathematicians and cryptographers who perform

pioneering research on and implementation of RSA, Elliptic

Curve Cryptography (ECC), and the NTRU algorithm suite.

About NTRU

NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc. provides comprehensive security expertise to the embedded technology market. From system security analysis to highly optimized implementations on the most constrained platforms, NTRU provides practical security solutions that are tailored for specific application environments. NTRU's core competencies extend from development and evaluation of standards based security architectures and protocols, cryptosystem design and implementation of security solutions based on the NTRU algorithm suite and other major algorithms. NTRU provides state of the art services and solutions to a range of markets, including trusted computing, wireless networking, authentication products and general embedded security applications. Headquartered in Burlington, Mass., NTRU's investors include Texas Instruments, Sony Corporation, Macrovision, Lehman Brothers Venture Capital, Investor AB, Granite Ventures, Greylock and 3i. For more information, please visit www.ntru.com.

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    CONTACT: NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc.
             Mike Yaffe, 781-418-2525
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    SOURCE: NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc.