Certicom Suite B Power Bundle
for Elliptic Curve Cryptography Now Supports Cavium Networks
NITROX and OCTEON Processors
Elliptic
Curve Cryptography Fast Becoming Mandatory Requirement For US
Government Applications
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario,
Nov. 1, 2007 – Certicom Corp. (TSX: CIC) today
announced that Certicom’s Suite B Power Bundle will
support the market-leading NITROX Security Processors and
OCTEON Multi-core MIPS64 Processors from Cavium Networks (NASDAQ:
CAVM), a provider of highly integrated semiconductor products
that enable intelligent processing in networking, communications,
storage and security applications. The joint solutions are
targeted for high-security, US government applications as
part of routers, switches, servers, appliances and gateways.
Suite B is the set of cryptographic algorithms recommended
by the National Security Agency (NSA) to secure classified
and unclassified communications. The private sector is also
beginning to implement Suite B algorithms in a range of
products and services.
Through this agreement, both Cavium and Certicom customers
are able to quickly comply with the U.S. government’s
Suite B specification by integrating Cavium Processors with
Certicom’s software toolkits for Crypto, SSL, SSH
and SRTP that are FIPS-validated and Suite B-enabled. The
need for meeting stringent federal standards for security
is driving the demand for Certicom’s NSA-approved
ECC technology, which is recommended by the U.S. government
and is also being adopted by industry to protect valuable
information.
“Cavium’s line of scalable security and network
services processors with advanced Suite B hardware acceleration,
combined with Certicom’s Suite B Power Bundle software
tools, allows our customers to be compliant with the latest
government standards without compromising performance,”
said Rajiv Khemani, vice president, marketing and sales
of Cavium Networks. “The partnership with Certicom
ensures that our customers will have the most efficient
and secure implementation of ECC available.”
ECC is used in a growing number of sectors ranging from
networking, consumer electronics, wireless devices and semiconductors
to government and financial services. In 2005, the NSA recommended
ECC as the public-key crypto-system to protect classified
and unclassified government communications. Known as Suite
B, these recommendations are part of an initiative to upgrade
the security infrastructure of government communications
to meet present and future security needs.
“ECC security technology meets the demanding requirements
of many customers, including the U.S. government,”
said Bernard W. Crotty, president and CEO of Certicom. “The
Cavium partnership provides our network infrastructure customers
the critical public key infrastructure needed to develop
end-to-end ECC enabled network products with the highest
performance implementations available.”
About Cavium Networks
Cavium Networks is a provider of highly integrated semiconductor
products that enable intelligent processing in networking,
communications, storage and security applications. Cavium
Networks offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software
compatible processors ranging in performance from 10 Mbps
to 10 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality
in enterprise, data-center, broadband & consumer and
access & service provider equipment. Cavium Networks
processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide
operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other
services. Cavium Networks principal offices are in Mountain
View, CA with design team locations in California, Massachusetts
and India. For more information, please visit: http://www.caviumnetworks.com.
About Certicom
Certicom protects the value of content, applications and
devices with government-approved security. Adopted by the
National Security Agency (NSA) for government communications,
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) provides the most security
per bit of any known public-key scheme. As the global leader
in ECC, Certicom security offerings are currently licensed
to more than 300 customers including General Dynamics, Motorola,
Oracle, Research In Motion and Unisys. Founded in 1985,
Certicom’s corporate offices are in Mississauga, Ontario,
Canada with worldwide sales and marketing headquarters in
Reston, Virginia and offices in the U.S., Canada, Europe
and China. Visit www.certicom.com.
Certicom Contact: John Conrad
Merritt Group Inc.
Telephone: 703-390-1538
Email: conrad@merrittgrp.com
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