CheckPoint Gets Full-strength SSL from RSA-Australia

Vin McLellan (vin@shore.net)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:31:46 -0400

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          CheckPoint, based in Ramat-Gan, Israel, and RSA just announced that
CheckPoint has licensed BSAFE SSL-C from RSA-Australia for FW-1.

        Access to BSAFE SSL-C -- developed in Australia by the team that
created the popular open-source SSLeay package, who are now the
managers of RSA's Brisbane-based development center -- will allow
Checkpoint to integrate the full-strength SSL crypto suite into its
VPN-1 family of virtual private network products and its LDAP-enabled
Account Management module.

        BSAFE SSL-C is the first RSA product available outside the United
States that supports key lengths of any size, and incorporates the
full suite of RSA and other algorithms specified in the SSL/TLS
protocols.

        BSAFE SSL-C buyers will get tech support from RSA-Australia, not
RSA-US, so Yankee hands will never touch the code (other than as
customers).

        Pencil in another SSL option for international firms with firewalls
and VPNs which may not fit the US Govt's standards as appropriate
recipients of (industry-standard) cryptography strong enough to resist
eavesdropping by the hundred-odd various signals intelligence agencies
which sieve the ether and tap the international cables for tidbits of
interest.

        (RSA's parent firm, Security Dynamics, for which I am a consultant,
noted that this was the largest single sale to date for RSA-Australia,
which SDTI established last year to serve the international market
under constraints less restrictive than current US export controls on
crypto-enhanced software.)

        Suerte,
                _Vin

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