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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
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