| ISMagazine.com | Government Direction |
September, 1999 |
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 16 -- Network Associates, Inc. today announced strong support for the Clinton Administration's relaxation of encryption export controls. Under this new policy, Network Associates will be able to export its entire security product line, including its leading PGP encryption, authentication and VPN software and Gauntlet Firewall, to virtually all customers in most of its key markets worldwide.
"Network Associates is greatly encouraged by today's announcement on encryption export controls which clearly shows that the Clinton Administration recognizes the demand of strong encryption products," said Peter Watkins, executive vice president of product management for Network Associates. "The new policy opens up doors and sales channels around the world from Europe to Latin America."
According to the recent Internet Security Software: 1999 Worldwide Market and Trends Report from IDC, Network associates' PGP product line leads all competitors as the number one US-based encryption applications software market share leader, showing strong growth from increased corporate sales of VPN and authentication software for e-commerce.
With headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., Network Associates, Inc. is a leading supplier of enterprise network security and management software. Network Associates' Net Tools Secure and Net Tools Manager products offer best-of-breed, suite-based network security and management software. Net Tools Secure and Net Tools Manager suites combine to create the Net Tools suite that centralizes these point solutions within an easy-to-use, integrated systems management environment. For more information, Network Associates can be reached at 408-988-3832 or on the Internet at http://www.nai.com.
BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 24 -- RSA Security Inc., the most trusted name in e-security, today welcomed California Governor Gray Davis' signing of legislation to enact the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, making California one of the first states to give electronic signatures equal legal standing with traditional signatures produced with a pen. When the new law goes into effect on January 1, 2000, a digital signature appended to "all transactions formed, transmitted and recorded electronically," with a few exceptions, will make them as legally binding as paper documents signed the old fashioned way.
Digital signatures are produced using the RSA Cryptosystem, invented and patented in the late 1970's by Drs. Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who founded RSA Data Security in 1982. RSA Security is the leading provider of the underlying cryptography that makes digital signing possible and practical.
"California's leadership is providing the necessary legal framework to promote electronic commerce, and offers a model other states can follow to achieve a standard way of conducting electronic commerce across all 50 states," said Art Coviello, president of RSA Security Inc. "We applaud Governor Davis and the state legislature for this pioneering effort, and look forward to the day when digital signatures are a common way of validating a variety of business transactions."
