12-12-96 "High-Tech Leaders to Facilitate Recovery of Encrypted Information Globally. Key Recovery Alliance Welcomes 29 New Members" The key recovery alliance has more than tripled its membership and identified its charter objectives. + expediting the widespread, global use of strong encryption + evaluating technologies that are flexible and scaleable to meet various changing commercial needs and policies + promoting interoperability between different key recovery and non-key recovery solutions + defining a commercial infrastructure for worldwide development of strong encryption + maximizing security for business To facilitate meeting these and other objectives, the alliance identified a series of working committees targeted to meet within the next 60 days. Soon after this 60-day period, the now 40-member alliance will re-convene to mark the progress of these committees and to identify future benchmarks and deliverables. The new members of the alliance are: America Online, Inc., Certicom, Compaq Computer Corporation, CygnaCom Solutions, Inc., Cylink Corporation, Data Securities International, Inc., First Data Corporation, Digital Signature Trust Company, Gradient Technologies, Inc., ICL, McAfee, Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan, Motorola, Mytec Technologies, Inc., Network Systems Group of StorageTek, Nortel, Novell, Inc., PSA, Price Waterhouse, Racal Data Group, Rainbow Technologies, SafeNet Trusted Services Corporation, Secure Computing, SourceFile, Sterling Commerce, Telequip, Unisys, Utimaco Mergent, and VPNet Technologies. "IBM SecureWay Framework To Accelerate Growth of Electronic Business" IBM announced a new framework which will advance secure electronic business by making it possible for diverse security offerings to work together. The IBM SecureWay Key Management Framework will let businesses use encryption products interchangeably. The new framework will provide for the easy adoption of new and existing key recovery technologies, while not disturbing existing cryptographic and other security functions and operations. It will effectively isolate the application from the unique properties of a specific key recovery implementation. A white paper describing the SecureWay Key Management Framework is available at http://www.ibm.com/security ----- KRA_gak (19 kb)