RSA Announces BCERT, Full-Featured Developer's Toolkit for Building Digital Certificates.REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 1996--RSA Data Security, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Security Dynamics Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SDTI SDTI Serial Data Transport Interface SDTI Security Dynamics Technologies, Inc. SDTI San Diego Trolley Inc. SDTI Serial Digital Transport Protocol ), today announced the introduction of BCERT 1.0, a full-featured toolkit for building X.509 certificate management applications. BCERT 1.0 is designed to provide support for the internationally recognized CCITT See ITU. CCITT - Commite' Consultatif International de Telegraphique et Telephonique. (International consultative committee on telecommunications and Telegraphy). CCITT changed its name to ITU-T on 1 March 1993. X.509 Digital Certificate, which is an electronic document used to prove identities and public-key ownership over a communications network. Each certificate contains the issuer's name, the user's public key and identifying information, and the issuer's 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. digital signature. This signature, which validates the certificate, also "seals" the certificate to prevent forgery or alteration. Until the availability of BCERT, building certificate management applications to provide this level of on-line security was an extremely complex process. "CCITT X.509 certificate management, and the issues associated with digital notarization, have made certificate issuing a challenging undertaking for even the most experienced product development team," said Jim Bidzos, president of RSA. "Now, with RSA's new BCERT toolkit, development and management is simplified. With BCERT, developers can add full-functioned certificate issuing to most RSA-secured applications quickly and easily." Next-Generation Architecture BCERT is part of RSA's next-generation architecture, the Layered Open Crypto Toolkit (LOCT LOCT Layered Open Crypto Toolkit ), which was announced in January at the 1996 RSA Data Security Conference in San Francisco. LOCT is RSA's strategic vision for all future security solutions and includes a framework for cryptographic engines, applications, application programming interfaces (APIs), and tools. Products resulting from LOCT are intended to provide developers with a more open, extensible and flexible environment that simultaneously enhances security and ease of use. BCERT contains the cryptographic support necessary to generate certificate requests, sign certificates and create and distribute certificate revocation lists (CRLs). BCERT also interfaces with existing commercial certification services, such as those currently available from VeriSign and the U.S. Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processes and delivers mail to individuals and businesses within the United States. The service seeks to improve its performance through the development of efficient mail-handling systems and operates its own planning and engineering programs. . In addition, BCERT is flexible enough to enable companies to define their own enterprise certification hierarchies, root keys, and notarization policies. BCERT features an object-oriented application programming interface for more efficient development. BCERT is also re-entrant (programming) re-entrant - Used to describe code which can have multiple simultaneous, interleaved, or nested invocations which will not interfere with each other. This is important for parallel processing, recursive functions or subroutines, and interrupt handling. , so it can be shared by multiple applications at the same time -- a necessity in today's multitasking multitasking Mode of computer operation in which the computer works on multiple tasks at the same time. A task is a computer program (or part of a program) that can be run as a separate entity. operating environments. Developers can use BCERT as a certificate engine for different types of certificate issuing applications, including certificate authorization and issuing centers, Internet electronic commerce and electronic payment systems, secure software distribution and copyright protection, secure World Wide Web applications, and non-repudiable digital signatures for electronic records, contracts, and files. More than 250 companies worldwide have incorporated RSA's encryption technology into their products using the BSAFE cryptography toolkit, including Novell Netware, Netscape Navigator Browsers and Electronic Commerce Servers, Lotus Notes, Digital Internet Tunnel, Oracle SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. Net, Microsoft Windows 95, and many more. Pricing/Availability BCERT 1.0 is available in the U.S. and has a list price of $290. RSA Data Security, Inc. RSA Data Security, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Security Dynamics Technologies, Inc., 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, IT4, ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. , ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. , IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. , 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, Calif. -0- Note to Editors: BSAFE and BCERT are trademarks of RSA Data Security, Inc. All other product and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Patrick Corman, 415/326-9648 Corman@cerf.net |
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