--- begin forwarded text X-Authentication-Warning: fma66.fma.com: majordomo set sender to owner-espam@lists.espace.net using -f X-Orig-From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> X-e$pam-source: Various X-Sender: rah@atanda.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 13:04:32 -0400 To: espam@intertrader.com, e$pam <e$pam@atanda.com> From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> Subject: C2Net Software's Stronghold Web Server Adds nCipher Hardware Encryption Support X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lbo.leftbank.com id NAA11958 Sender: owner-espam@lists.espace.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: e$@thumper.vmeng.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- This mail is brought to you by the e$pam mailing list --------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> Reply-To: rah@shipwright.com Organization: The Shipwright Development Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> Subject: C2Net Software's Stronghold Web Server Adds nCipher Hardware Encryption Support http://www.prnewswire.com:80/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/s tory/7-14-9 7/275856&EDATE= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="275856&EDATE=" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="275856&EDATE=" X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lbo.leftbank.com i d KAA11101 [Todays News] C2Net Software's Stronghold Web Server Adds nCipher Hardware Encryption Support OAKLAND, Calif., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- C2Net Software today announc ed its Stronghold(TM) secure web server now supports the nFast hardware cryptographic accelerator from nCipher Corporation Ltd. "Like Stronghold, the nFast accelerator is manufactured outside of the U.S., enabling us to off er our world-wide customers a simple, platform-independent way to speed up s ecure web server throughput," said C2Net Software president Sameer Parekh. "Man y will find that Stronghold's terrific out-of-the-box performance is more t han enough for their needs. If not, adding one or more nFast units is a fast, simple way to increase encryption performance as required." "nCipher's nFast cryptographic accelerators enhance e-commerce and on line transactions by speeding up the processing of crypto keys," said Alex van Someren, president of nCipher. "Using nFast together with the Stronghold web server gives customers throughout the world a quickly-scalable environmen t for conducting secure business on the Internet." nCipher's nFast cryptographic accelerator interfaces via a standard S CSI2 interface, making it compatible with virtually any computer platform, and mounts within the space of a standard 3.5-inch disk drive bay. Each nFast accelerator can carry out approximately three hundred 1024-bit public key signings per second. The Stronghold Web Server is an enhanced, secure, commercial version of the popular Apache server. Based on figures in a Netcraft survey (http://www.netcraft.com/survey/), Stronghold is the second most popular commercial server for UNIX and the second most popular for secure applica tions on the Internet. nCipher Corporation Ltd. (http://www.ncipher.com/), an affiliate of the Newbridge Network Corporation (NYSE: NN), is a privately-owned developer of cryptographic technologies for securing server transactions, including bo th software and hardware cryptographic acceleration products. nCipher headquarters are located in Cambridge, England, with US offices in Andove r, MA and in Santa Clara, CA. C2Net Software, Inc. (http://www.c2.net/) is a leading provider of uncompromised network security software. Through its international offsho re development programs, all C2Net products are exempt from U.S. government export restrictions, allowing the company to offer uncrippled, strong cryptography solutions to customers worldwide. SOURCE C2Net Software Inc. 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