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Tumbleweed Press Releases
Tumbleweed Communications and nCipher Expand PKI Hardware and Software Integration
Integration of Tumbleweed Valicert Validation Authority and nCipher netHSM Speeds and Secures Key Validation and Management Lake Buena Vista, FL - DoD Public Key Enabling (PKE) Technical Forum — November 15, 2004 — TumbleweedŽ Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:TMWD), the leading provider of e-mail security, file transfer security, and identity validation solutions, and nCipher plc (LSE:NCH), a leading provider of cryptographic IT security, today announced integration of the Tumbleweed Valicert Validation AuthorityT with the nCipher netHSMT, enabling organizations to improve the overall security and scalability of their PKI validation infrastructure. Tumbleweed has also formally joined the nCipher ReadyT program solidifying the two companies' business and engineering relationship. At the DoD Public Key Enabling (PKE) Technical Forum, from November 15-19, 2004, Tumbleweed (booth # 201) and nCipher (booth #105) will be showcasing the integration of the Tumbleweed and nCipher products. The Tumbleweed Valicert Validation Authority is the most widely deployed solution for digital certificate validation in the market today. Based on the open standard Online Certificate Validation Protocol (OCSP, RFC 2560), the Validation Authority allows applications to validate the status of a digital certificate in real time, ensuring that revoked credentials cannot be used for secure email, smart card login, web access, wireless, VPN or other electronic transactions. nCipher's netHSM has been integrated with the Tumbleweed Valicert Validation Authority to protect the integrity of the cryptographic private keys, enable strong, secure validation of certificates and accelerate the cryptographic processing. netHSM allows multiple individual validation servers to share access to hardware-based encryption, decryption and signing functions via secure connections over IP networks. This greatly enhances scalability, reduces deployment costs and centralizes administration. The nCipher netHSM is validated to the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 level 3, one of the most stringent standards in the IT security industry. The combination of the Validation Authority and nCipher hardware security modules is deployed by multiple branches of the U.S. Department of Defense, banking and financial institutions world-wide. Tumbleweed and nCipher have integrated multiple security products to date, including:
“Cryptography plays an integral role in protecting the integrity of the complex processes involved in the validation of digital certificates,” says Tony Crossman, Director, Strategic Partners at nCipher. “Protecting and managing the cryptographic keys is essential if the result of the validation process itself is going to be trusted. In addition, by applying high performance cryptographic acceleration to the system, one of the most serious transaction bottlenecks associated with the use of a PKI can be overcome.” “Our customers expect the utmost in security and reliability
when it comes to validating digital certificates and we have
integrated nCipher’s netHSM with the Tumbleweed Valicert
Validation Authority to deliver a superior level of security
and performance to our customers” said John Hines, Director
of Validation Authority Product Development at Tumbleweed.
“The U.S. DOD has deployed over 4.5 million PKI based
smart cards, and nCipher has helped us meet the increasing
performance and scalability demands of this community, while
keeping security standards high.” About the Tumbleweed Valicert Validation Authority The Validation Authority is the:
In addition to the Tumbleweed Valicert Validation Authority,
Tumbleweed also offers a suite of plug-in applications to
simplify certificate validation processing at the application
level. Server Validator (SV) is a plug-in for the most widely
used Secure Web Servers on multiple OS platforms. Desktop
Validator (DV) is a Microsoft OS based plug-in that provides
highly flexible validation options for Microsoft Windows based
applications. About nCipher The IT security industry has developed universal standards for protecting the confidentiality of information as it passes through the Internet by means of encryption. These standards are what allow the web browser of a desktop PC to communicate securely with a website anywhere in the world, giving rise to the familiar ‘padlock’ icon on the browser’s screen. nCipher products called ‘Hardware Security Modules’ or ‘HSMs’ support these industry encryption standards and protect the encryption keys that must remain an absolute secret for encryption to have any benefits. Our products have received more hardware security validations than those of any vendor in the world, following testing administered by the US Government’s National Institute for Standards and Technology. Many of the world's leading organisations - from Microsoft and Barclays Bank to PricewaterhouseCoopers and the U.S. Navy - rely on nCipher to deliver a sound IT security infrastructure. nCipher's products are particularly well suited to organisations with high volumes of security-sensitive transactions, such as banking and financial institutions, government departments, online retailers and online service providers. nCipher is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:NCH)
and is a member of the FTSE TechMARK and FTSE4Good indices
with offices in Cambridge, UK; Boston, Washington, Hamburg
and Tokyo. For more information on nCipher, visit www.ncipher.com. About Tumbleweed SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT Except for the historical information contained herein, the
matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking
statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those projected,
particularly with respect to integration of technology and
sales of combined technology. In some cases, forward-looking
statements can be identified by terminology such as “may,”
“will,” “should,” “potential,”
“continue,” “expects,” “anticipates,”
“intends,” “plans,” “believes,”
“estimates,” and similar expressions. For further
cautions about the risks of investing in Tumbleweed, we refer
you to the documents Tumbleweed files from time to time with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly Tumbleweed’s
Form 10-K filed March 15, 2004, Form 10-Q filed May 10, 2004,
Form 10-Q filed August 12, 2004, and Form 10-Q filed November
9, 2004. Contact for nCipher: |
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