Xcert Delivers Scalable, High-Assurance Certificate Authority Solution With Chrysalis-ITS Cryptographic Hardware.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 15, 1999--Xcert International, Inc., the premier developer of Public Key Infrastructure technology, today announced that Sentry CA 3.5, its recently introduced Certificate Authority product suite, will include Luna(TM) CA encryption hardware from Chrysalis-ITS Inc., the leading provider of high performance security processing products for the networking industry. Under this agreement, Xcert will offer Luna CA hardware with Xcert's Sentry CA 3.5, providing financial institutions, large corporate and government agencies with a convenient, one-stop solution for scaling high-assurance electronic commerce applications. Xcert's industrial-strength PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) A framework for creating a secure method for exchanging information based on public key cryptography. The foundation of a PKI is the certificate authority (CA), which issues digital certificates that authenticate the identity of solution is the only digital certificate software to support both the security and business requirements of large enterprises. Scaling upwards of hundreds of thousands of users, Sentry CA 3.5 lets an organization own and operate its own digital certificate authority (CA) according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. its existing business practices. The critical point of digital certificate security is the certificate authority's root key, used to sign digital certificates. Luna CA systems, the high-assurance encryption hardware from Chrysalis-ITS, provide one of the highest levels of protection for the CA's private key. Chrysalis-ITS products have been validated to Federal Information Processing Standards (standard) Federal Information Processing Standards - (FIPS) United States Government technical standards published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). 140-1, Level 2 and Level 3 by 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. . "Our root certificate authority is an extremely sensitive installation. The ABA and ABAeCom chose Xcert's Sentry CA software because it is integrated with Luna CA, FIPS-140 compliant encryption hardware. This solution accommodates all the requirements of our security policy," said Kawika Daguio, PKI architect for the American Bankers Association The American Bankers Association (ABA) is comprised of banks and other financial institutions. It seeks to promote the strength and profitability of the banking industry by Lobbying federal and state governments, building industry consensus on key issues, and providing products and and ABAeCom. By combining Chrysalis-ITS market-leading encryption hardware and Xcert's next-generation certificate authority software, Xcert will provide a new benchmark in fully-integrated and highly-scaleable Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) solutions that are built for the Internet. In addition to offering all the standard security enhancements of Luna CA -- secure root key storage, key cloning and 'M-of-N' authentication for access control -- Xcert's solution is now able to deploy with advanced security features. Sentry CA 3.5 will include hardware-based cross-certification for secure interoperability with third party certificate authorities, a critical aspect of ensuring that multiple organizations can communicate and share private information over the Internet with a high degree of trust and assurance. "Xcert has always been committed to working with complementary technologies that enable us to deliver the industrial strength PKI required by the enterprise market," said Patrick Richard, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Xcert International Inc. "Sentry CA 3.5 is an extension of this commitment, and is designed to meet all of the security requirements for scaleable, high-assurance Internet commerce and communication." "Providing highly secure and scaleable PKIs is vital to the growth of electronic commerce and virtual private networking," said Steven Baker
About Xcert International Inc. Based in Walnut Creek, California Walnut Creek is a largely affluent suburb several miles east of Oakland in Contra Costa County, California, USA, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. While not as large as the neighboring Concord, Walnut Creek serves as the business and entertainment hub for the , Xcert International Inc. is a premier developer of digital certificate and Certificate Authority software products for Public Key Infrastructure solutions. Xcert's solutions provide privacy and authenticity for conducting high assurance business transactions over the Internet. Xcert develops, manufactures and distributes Certificate Authority and PKI solutions with secure directory services to enable enterprise organizations with a secure method of e-business throughout the enterprise and beyond the firewall. Xcert also licenses its underlying PKI technology to selected service providers and third party developers worldwide. Xcert can be reached on the World Wide Web at www.xcert.com. About Chrysalis-ITS Chrysalis-ITS, Inc. is the leading provider of high performance security processing products for the networking industry. Its industry leading Luna technology is uniquely positioned to enhance the trust and performance of Certification Authority See CA. and Virtual Private Networking applications. Chrysalis-ITS products include: Luna CA3, the leading certificate authority hardware security product; Luna 2, the widely used encryption token that adds portability and security to digital certificate-enabled desktops; and Luna VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. the industry's top performing VPN cryptographic accelerator. Chrysalis-ITS' advanced cryptographic technology is used in some of the most widely known enterprise security solutions from Baltimore Technologies, Checkpoint Software Technologies Inc., Digital Signature Trust, Entrust Technologies Inc., IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Netscape, VeriSign, and Xcert International Inc. The company's World Wide Web site is www.chrysalis-its.com. Note to Editors: Chrysalis-ITS and Chrysalis-ITS logo and Luna are trademarks or registered trademarks of Chrysalis-ITS, Inc. |
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