Re: GTE and Cylink ATM Crypto

["Vincent S. Gunville" <vingun@rgalex.com>]

Anonymous wrote:
> 
> GTE & Cylink Team On Encryption For ATM
> 
> Washington, D.C., 31 January 1996 -- During a press
> conference last night at Comnet, GTE and Cylink unveiled
> InfoGuard 100, a jointly developed offering billed as the
> first encryption system able to work with ATM
> (asynchronous transfer mode).
> 
> InfoGuard 100 is meant to provide the security needed to
> induce business and government to use ATM public
> networks, said Michael M. Guzelian, GTE's marketing
> director for broadband systems, speaking at the press
> conference.
> 
> GTE is the number one provider of encryption to the
> federal government, while Cylink holds a 70 percent share
> of the commercial encryption market, according to Kamy
> Kavianian, senior product marketing manager at Cylink for
> SecureWAN.
> 
> GTE and Cylink will also jointly market the new ATM
> encryption system. "The deal (for InfoGuard 100) is
> mutually exclusive, but we don't know anyone else who can
> do it," noted Jeff Callo, Cylink's director of business
> development.
> 
> InfoGuard consists of two main components, according to
> the officials. An ATM adapter from GTE provides ATM
> interfaces and cell processing and control functions.
> 
> Cylink's CIDEC-VHS contributes "high-speed data
> encryption and decryption," in addition to physical
> security and "full automated key functions."
> 
> Kavianian told the journalists that InfoGuard 100 is
> based on DES encryption. Users of InfoGuard will foil
> "key exhaustion," a method used for breaking encryption
> codes, if they "change their codes frequently," Guzelian
> added.
> 
> Essentially, CIDEC-VHS has turned out to be "the first
> encryption method fast enough to keep up with ATM,"
> Guzelian maintained.
> 
> The agreement between Cylink and GTE represents "an
> excellent example of coopetition," Callo said.
> 
> --

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