------- Forwarded Message Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 18:47:29 -0700 From: Ellen Elias <elias@ora.com> Subject: WebSite Professional Adds Digital Signature Technology For Release September 10, 1996 Ellen Elias (707)829-0515 ext. 322 elias@ora.com http://software.ora.com/ O'REILLY'S WEBSITE PROFESSIONAL ADDS SECURITY CAPABILITIES WITH TERISA'S NEW DIGITAL SIGNATURE TECHNOLOGY Sebastopol, CA--O'Reilly & Associates announced today that its WebSite Professional(TM) product will support Terisa Systems SecureWeb Documents(TM) (SWD) client. Terisa's software is provided as a browser plug-in that works with WebSite Professional's enhanced server security capabilities. Terisa Systems SecureWeb Documents client, a pioneering technology that enables Netscape browser users to send and receive verifiable Internet documents, is currently in beta and due to ship Q496. These documents are managed and stored on an enhanced security server such as WebSite Professional. SWD, which plugs into the Netscape browser, is based on the Secure HTTP (S-HTTP) cryptographic protocol standard, developed by Terisa Systems. WebSite Professional's built-in S-HTTP support on the server side works hand-in-glove with the SWD tool on the browser side. Together, they enable a Web administrator to provide Web documents which are safer than paper: readable only by specified users, from the right source, and exactly as provided. SecureWeb Documents enables a Web administrator to determine the exact visitors to a given site, with the visitors' permission. WebSite Professional is the first and only server currently supporting Terisa's standards-based digital signature technology for the World Wide Web. It is also one of the only leading servers to have built-in S-HTTP security. In contrast with SSL, which establishes security at the connection level, S-HTTP establishes security at the document level. S-HTTP provides a range of security options for documents, from digital signatures, as in SWD, to encryption. "SecureWeb Document and WebSite Professional together make electronic commerce, as well as general document serving, much more secure for Web server users and their site visitors," says Gina Blaber, Director of Software Products at O'Reilly. "Our long history with Terisa Systems underscores our mutual commitment to pushing the Web's capabilities forward. SWD and WebSite Professional are among the very few Web products that support S-HTTP, an important technology which greatly increases security standards on the Web." In July, 1996, the Forrester report on Web Security stated: "In the on-line world there is no sure way to know who is on the other end of the network. In the physical world, consumers use identification cards to prove their identity. There are two critical pieces of technology that solve this problem in the on-line world: 1) Digital Certificates and 2) Digital Signatures." WebSite Professional and Terisa's SWD combine to offer this critical technology in an affordable, useable package on the Windows platform. About WebSite Professional WebSite Professional, the second generation of the award-winning server software WebSite, runs on Windows NT and 95. Its ease of use, documentation, and features have been widely praised. In addition to cryptographic security, WebSite Pro includes support for a wide range of programming applications, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC)/SQL integration through Cold Fusion Standard, a server-side Java programming environment, three comprehensive books, and four software development kits. WebSite Professional also includes all the features of its predecessor WebSite 1.1, including the HotDog Standard HTML editor, WebView graphical document and link viewer, and the Mosaic browser. Both are products of O'Reilly & Associates, developed in cooperation with independent developer Robert Denny and Enterprise Integration Technologies (EIT), Inc./Verifone. WebSite Professional's list price is $499, with upgrade pricing for WebSite 1.1 customers available from O'Reilly for $99. O'Reilly Software Online (http://software.ora.com/) contains more information about WebSite Professional, as well as O'Reilly's other software products. About O'Reilly & Associates O'Reilly & Associates is recognized worldwide for its definitive books on the Internet and UNIX, and for its development of online content and software. O'Reilly developed the Global Network Navigator (GNN), a pioneering web-based publication which it sold to America Online in June, 1995. In addition to WebSite Professional and WebSite, the company's other software products include WebBoard, a web-based multi-threaded conferencing system, PolyForm, a web forms construction kit, and Statisphere, a web traffic analyzer (to be released this fall). About Terisa Systems Terisa Systems, Inc., based in Los Altos, Calif., was formed in 1995 to provide unified communications security solutions for the WWW. In early 1995, leading industry players such as America Online, CompuServe, IBM/Prodigy, Netscape, RSA and VeriFone/EIT forged a common commitment to WWW security by agreeing to pool both investment and technology in Terisa Systems. Terisa Systems' mission is to create tools and applications technologies that make secure Internet commerce possible. Terisa Systems' customers and partners are WWW-based application developers and vendors of commercial online services such as AOL, CompuServe/SPRY, Novell, OpenMarket, O'Reilly & Associates, and Process Software. The company is privately held. For more information on Terisa Systems, visit http://www.terisa.com. WebSite Professional, WebSite, WebBoard, PolyForm, and Statisphere are trademarks of O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. All other names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies. ### - ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- End of Forwarded Message