RSA BSAFE(R) Cert-C Boosts PKI Interoperability, Convenience and
Time to Market
BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- In advance of next week's RSA
Conference 2000, RSA Security Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS), the most trusted name in
e-security, today unveiled an easier, more rapid and safer way to create
PKI-enabled applications that work with public key infrastructures from a wide
range of vendors. Based on open standards and thoroughly tested for
multi-vendor interoperability, RSA BSAFE(R) Cert-C software is designed to
simplify and accelerate open PKI application development by providing in a
single package all the certificate processing and cryptographic software
needed to build and deploy secure applications for a variety of PKI vendor
environments, including RSA Keon(TM) and VeriSign OnSite(TM).
With the open, standards-based design of RSA BSAFE Cert-C software,
independent software vendors, enterprises and e-business service providers are
no longer locked into one vendor's PKI implementation. The RSA BSAFE Cert-C
software is designed to allow developers to quickly create one application
that can be deployed across multiple platforms and that automatically
integrates with PKI products from numerous vendors. RSA BSAFE Cert-C software
is designed to significantly reduce the effort and in-depth expertise
traditionally required to develop PKI-enabled applications by managing all the
details of digital certificate requests, retrieval, validation, storage and
revocation that PKI applications rely on. RSA Security's outstanding
documentation, extensive sample code, easy-to-use API and worldwide support
are designed to reduce the time and cost of developing PKI applications.
"RSA Security is changing PKI application development by making it easier
for developers to build PKI-ready applications that can be used on all the
leading PKI platforms, regardless of the manufacturer," said Scott Schnell,
senior vice president of marketing for RSA Security. "Our efforts will also
help to speed the deployment of PKI systems by helping developers get to
market faster with products that deliver the highest levels of security,
authentication and trust."
Using the RSA BSAFE Cert-C product, application developers can create,
test and deploy their solution using a single package backed by the most
trusted name in e-security. The flexible APIs help "future proof" their
solutions and insulate their applications from changes in the underlying
storage services, trust policies or PKI vendors. Developers can even start
with an outsourced PKI and later bring the PKI in house.
"Applications built using Cert-C achieve flexible interoperability while
gaining the additional advantage of native support for the industry leading
Certificate Request Syntax protocol. This standard protocol allows
applications to easily request, retrieve and revoke certificates from VeriSign
OnSite," said Richard Yanowitch, executive vice president of marketing at
VeriSiementing the CRS
protocol, RSA BSAFE Cert-C makes implementing digital certificate-based
applications as simple as possible."
RSA BSAFE Cert-C software's extensible architecture is designed to let
developers add customized service providers to meet specific requirements for
processing requests, storage, revocation and validation of digital
certificates. The RSA BSAFE Cert-C product includes a fully documented
Service Provider Interface (SPI) with complete source code examples to assist
developers.
RSA BSAFE Cert-C includes the complete set of proven RSA BSAFE Crypto-C
libraries, which provide core cryptographic services to the PKI application
for tasks such as key pair generation, encryption, digital signatures and
envelopes. BSAFE Cert-C provides functions for RSA BCERT customers wanting to
switch to BSAFE Cert-C.
Availability and Pricing
RSA BSAFE Cert-C software development kits are available now for the
Windows and NT platforms. Releases for the Solaris, HP-UX and Linux operating
systems will be available in March 2000 and RSA BSAFE Cert-C software can be
ported to other platforms based on on, contact RSA Security at 800-PUBLIKEY or 650-295-7600.
RSA Security Inc.
RSA Security Inc., The Most Trusted Name in e-Security(TM) helps
organizations build secure, trusted foundations for e-businesses through its
RSA SecurID(R) two-factor authentication, RSA BSAFE(R) encryption and RSA
Keon(TM) public key management systems. With nearly a half billion RSA
BSAFE-enabled applications in use worldwide, more than six million RSA SecurID
users and almost 20 years of industry experience, RSA Security has the proven
leadership and innovative technology to address the changing security needs of
e-business and bring trust to the new, online economy. RSA Security can be
reached at http://www.rsasecurity.com.
NOTE: BSAFE and SecurID are registered trademarks, and Keon, RSA and The
Most Trusted Name in e-Security are trademarks of RSA Security Inc. All other
products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to the
anticipated release of additional products. Such statements involve a number
of risks and uncertainties. Among the important factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such
forward-looking statements are delays in product development, technical
difficulties, software bugs and errors, competitive pressures, changes in
customer requirements, market acceptance of new technologies, technological
changes in the computer industry and the risk factors detailed from time to
time in RSA Security's periodic reports and registration statements filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation RSA
Security's Annual Report on Form 10K (File No. 000-25120), filed on
March 31, 1999.
SOURCE RSA Security Inc.
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CONTACT:
Patrick Corman of Corman Communications,
650-326-9648, or patrick@cormancom.com, for RSA Security Inc.; or
Richard Mack of RSA Security Inc., 781-301-5344, or
rhmack@rsasecurity.com
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