-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 4,MIC-CLEAR Content-Domain: RFC822 Originator-Certificate: MIICRjCCAdsCBQJTAAAEMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAgUAME4xCzAJBgNVBAYTAlVTMRMw EQYDVQQIEwpDYWxpZm9ybmlhMSowKAYDVQQKEyFDb25zZW5zdXMgRGV2ZWxvcG1l bnQgQ29ycG9yYXRpb24wHhcNOTQwNjI3MDAwMDAwWhcNOTUwNjI2MjM1OTU5WjCB 4DELMAkGA1UEBhMCVVMxEzARBgNVBAgTCkNhbGlmb3JuaWExKjAoBgNVBAoTIUNv bnNlbnN1cyBEZXZlbG9wbWVudCBDb3Jwb3JhdGlvbjETMBEGA1UEERMKOTQxMTQt MzYxNTETMBEGA1UECBMKQ2FsaWZvcm5pYTEWMBQGA1UEBxMNU2FuIEZyYW5jaXNj bzEeMBwGA1UECRQVNDEwNC0yNHRoIFN0cmVldCCmNDE5MRIwEAYDVQQMEwlQcmVz aWRlbnQxGjAYBgNVBAMTEUNocmlzdG9waGVyIEFsbGVuMHAwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEB BQADXwAwXAJVKa43Pd6AhLaYGRLMwvGGvZ7dtzK+XpsRtwKYEDQKHE8swS09ViEg MKuMa/+weQXDBpqQ6SDj/xgHGzmwGhkbeitPWr/6Du5gemMLrhhTs8eMhAXLXwID AQABMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAgUAA1YAEkQDfJmroAMZD5v1F7fPK38y4waoX0FSpdsf jcXf04URcEJc5dCFm0DzrMPMdVpNz5tpSBy0ZUeg/xqbwRfHIW34bMAVLc9kojIi AGXlHL/q8HRCIx== Issuer-Certificate: MIIB6TCCAVYCBQJBAAAKMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAgUAMFwxCzAJBgNVBAYTAlVTMSAw HgYDVQQKExdSU0EgRGF0YSBTZWN1cml0eSwgSW5jLjErMCkGA1UECxMiQ29tbWVy Y2lhbCBDZXJ0aWZpY2F0aW9uIEF1dGhvcml0eTAeFw05NDA1MDUwMTEwMDRaFw05 OTA0MzAwMTEwMDRaME4xCzAJBgNVBAYTAlVTMRMwEQYDVQQIEwpDYWxpZm9ybmlh MSowKAYDVQQKEyFDb25zZW5zdXMgRGV2ZWxvcG1lbnQgQ29ycG9yYXRpb24wcDAN BgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAANfADBcAlUpc+2/Ec+bydwsB6enemznB/aQwd4gp2YSI3FW PHl2tc/aa7HZFA0qCL/0Ol6ituC+yUEO3IWKQ5U8hhl1RVqmW7mzwNOr2yeHIFA5 rqXvAvMvlGpvAgMBAAEwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQECBQADfgA2QEssX/nG3spHBpbkU4KV oQdVhxtQEmjuIrqBVI9jQRntacJ0tw1m5MsLV6hNMV/mD0yKmDc9ywSF7ZWIipVY tz8E52yQEprR+JxTad+/ZtTI0wEvEM5313jUF4ivF86eOuZDqHd4zbRHk6ggIAGH 86GFbMaWDaKoGUrde2== MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, J9l0zSgqnVqK8a9QQ3Ml+O6tv58PsVmCELOQTqj1i8HCQoHpJ+bEmayf4WyIbqoY y4xFecAPQfP5hpHPLVoLX4IM7kNT0UhDHW8XklfhhAVE1+Y0Og== Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 09:00:00 -0800 Subject: PRESS RELEASE - RSA Licenses Commercial Distribution Rights to RSAREF From: Christopher Allen <ChristopherA@consensus.com> Organization: Consensus Development Corporation, San Francisco, CA USA Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Text-Source: ftp://ftp.consensus.com/pub/consensus/pr/RSAREF-PR.txt X-HTML-Source: http://www.consensus.com:8300/RSAREF-PR.html Summary: RSA announces that it is licensing commercial distribution rights of its RSAREF software to Consensus Development, allowing for implementation of commercial Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) applications. Keywords: press release, consensus development corporation, rsa data security, rsaref, commercial license, support, marketing, maintenance, encryption, digital signature, source code, tool kit, PEM, privacy enchanced mail RSA Licenses Commercial Distribution Rights to RSAREF ===================================================== RSA announces that it is licensing commercial distribution rights of its RSAREF software to Consensus Development, allowing for implementation of commercial Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) applications. Press Release - ------------- REDWOOD SHORES, CALIFORNIA--JANUARY 9, 1995--RSA Data Security, Inc. and Consensus Development Corporation jointly announce today at the RSA Data Security Conference that Consensus Development is licensing the commercial distribution rights of RSAREF from RSA Data Security. RSAREF (pronounced "R.S.A. reff") is short for "RSA reference implementation" and is a cryptography source code toolkit designed to allow developers to create PEM (Privacy-Enhanced Mail)software and other encryption/authentication tools. Until now, RSAREF has been an unsupported RSA product approved for use only as part of freeware and not-for-profit software applications. Consensus Development will now be able to market and license RSAREF to commercial software developers, and provide software support and future enhancements to the RSAREF source code library. This announcement is significant because it is the first program of its kind to make the RSAREF implementation of RSA's popular patented authentication technology available to commercial vendors. "Data mailed, posted, or put on servers on the Internet is inherently untrustable today, " said Jim Bidzos, president of RSA. "Tampering with electronic documents takes no special skills, and leaves no trace.With the availability of RSAREF for both free software as well as commercial software there is no need for this situation to continue." Now that a commercial license to RSAREF is available, applications may now be developed and sold that incorporate Privacy-Enhanced Mail's authentication and encryption capabilities. Christopher Allen, President of Consensus Development adds "The PEM standards have been under development for a couple of years and only now are coming to fruition. The ability to offer both freeware developers and commercial software vendors a license to RSAREF will kickstart the adoption of PEM-capable mail software." Consensus Development will be creating an email discussion list for software developers interested in RSAREF. To join the discussion, send a message to <listproc@consensus.com> with the body of the message requesting "subscribe RSAREF-DEV-L firstname lastname". Background - ---------- The RSA cryptosystem was invented and patented in the late 1970's by Drs. Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who started RSA Data Security in Redwood City, California, in 1982. Digital signatures are produced using the RSA Cryptosystem, which is a public-key cryptosystem. Each user has two keys - one public and one private. The public key can be disclosed without compromising the private key. Electronic documents can be "signed" with an unforgeable signature by using a document/private-key combination to produce a signature unique to the author and particular document. Anyone using an application that supports RSAREF and has the public key of the author can subsequently verify the authenticity of the document. Applications of digital signatures are endless: expense reports, electronic forms and purchase orders, contract revisions, engineering change orders, even tax returns can be electronically signed to speed electronic document flow and eliminate fraud. Furthermore, digital signatures can also be used to detect any virus before a program is executed, since any change whatsoever is detected. One reason that the paperless office has never materialized is that paper must still be printed so that handwritten signatures can be applied. RSAREF eliminates that necessity. Applications supporting RSAREF could have prevented last year's computer fraud at Dartmouth College, in which students were tricked into missing an important midterm by a fraudulent electronic mail message claiming to be from university faculty. Corporate Profiles - ------------------ RSA Data Security, Inc. <URL=http://www.rsa.com/> is the acknowledged world leader in encryption technology, with over three million copies of its software encryption and authentication installed and in use worldwide. RSA is a defacto standard for encryption and digital signatures, and is part of existing and proposed standards for the Internet, CCITT, ISO, ANSI, IEEE and business and financial networks around the globe. RSA develops and markets platform-independent software developers' kits, end-user products, and provides comprehensive consulting services in the cryptographic sciences. RSA technology has been embedded in the products of many companies, including Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Oracle, General Magic, DEC, Sun, Novell, Lotus, Motorola, Northern Telecom, AT&T, WordPerfect, General Electric, Hughes Aircraft, and many others. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California. Consensus Development Corporation <URL=http://www.consensus.com:8300/> is a software development and consulting firm specializing in the support of organizations that need long-distance collaboration via wide-area networks and the Internet.Consensus Development has been offering consulting and software tools in the area of collaboration support since 1988 and is based in San Francisco, California. Clients include Aladdin Systems, American Information Exchange (AMIX), America Online, Apple Computer, Attain, Authorware, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Claris Corporation, Component Integration Laboratories, Connectix Corporation, Digicash bv, Group Technologies, InterCon, ON Technology, Portfolio Systems, RSA Data Security, Ronin Publishing, Software Ventures, Visa International, and Xanadu Operating Company. Contact - ------- Kurt Stammberger RSA Data Security, Inc. 415/595-8782 <kurt@rsa.com> Christopher Allen Consensus Development Corporation 415/647-6383 <ChristopherA@consensus.com> $$ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...Christopher Allen Consensus Development Corporation.. ...<ChristopherA@consensus.com> 4104-24th Street #419.. ... San Francisco, CA 94114-3615.. ... o415/647-6383 f415/647-6384.. ...Mosaic/WWW Home Page: .. ...Consensus Home Page .. -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Created with RIPEM Mac 0.8.5 b1