Startup eyes SSL security ICs By Loring Wirbel EE Times (10/01/01, 3:57 p.m. EST)
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011001S0084 AUSTIN, Texas -- A security-processor startup has become the latest advocate of hardwired acceleration of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) session creation. Layer N Networks Inc. is aligning with the likes of Broadcom Corp. and Andes Networks Inc. in promoting SSL for secure transactions, instead of programmable encryption and Internet Protocol tunneling. The Austin-based startup is gambling that the market for this technology will mature at the same pace as its own product development, so that there will be customers when it is ready to start shipping product. Layer N is aiming to deliver a chip set in early 2002, and chief executive officer Mike Salas believes the market will be mature enough by then to warrant an IC-level product. ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]