-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.leitl.org 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:32:32 -0500 From: David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IP: Look what Gil Amelio is up to >From: "Janos G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Viaquo ups security in permissioning software distribution > Janos Gereben - www.the451.com > > Using cryptographic techniques developed by a former CIA scientist, >San Jose-based Viaquo is expected to participate in the upcoming RSA >conference by releasing a security "permissioning platform," called ViaSeal. >The451 has learned ahead of the release about some aspects of this >distributed-architecture, scalable control device of enterprise-wide >information and digital content. > > Viaquo is a two-year-old San Jose, California, company, headed by Gil >Amelio, formerly CEO of Apple Computer and National Semiconductor. Primary >backers of the company are Sienna Ventures, VenGlobal Capital Fund and Hsieh >Investment Limited Partners. > > ViaSeal will be deployed either as a stand-alone product or through >ViaSeal's application programming interface (API). Typical public key >infrastructure-based access control systems are difficult to scale because >content encrypting keys are individually encrypted and transmitted to each >user who, additionally, need a separate, individual certificate. ViaSeal is >reported to enable each authorized user with a set of credentials in a >security profile that allows accessing the file, and so as the system grows >in number of users, each user brings additional computing resource required >to create or consume the content. The central server has no increased burden >due to the security system and the system scales to any number of users. > > Context Permissioning is being developed to fill the need to control >and secure data in new modes of distribution. The old model worked via >fixed-function standalone video terminals with a dedicated analog connection >to an information provider. In that scenario, the control of data was easier >in that the vendor was responsible for distribution and simply declared the >number of terminals installed and the data permissioned on each terminal to >the source provider. That situation changed radically as tens of thousands >of users may want access to a single document or music track on a >centralized server under old PKI, meaning that the same number of key >exchanges and certificate verifications must be calculated and dispensed by >that server. > > Technology ViaSeal is a role-based access control (RBAC) system, a >software-based tool, which may be incorporated into existing software tools >and improve overall security by simplifying the duties, tasks and >administrative responsibilities of network administrators. Previous network >access control systems have provided these functions, but RBAC streamlines >the administrative process of establishing privileges and reduces management >time for reviewing privilege assignments. > > In addition to PKI and digital rights management (DRM), ViaSeal >provides distributed access permissioning software (DAPS), which protects >the content and not the channel. If the viability of this technology - and >the use of extra-strength encryption, based on ANSI x9.69 standards - is >proved, documents and files secured through ViaSeal can be sent, stored and >transmitted over any public or private network. > > Competition Britain's Transacsys introduced permissioning about a year >ago in the context of employee relationship management, competing with >different ERM technologies used by Siebel, PeopleSoft and others. Several of >the 130 members of the Software and Information Industry Association's >financial information services sector are engaged in application- or >industry-specific permissioning development, but Viaquo is out front in >working on security technology featuring role-based access control and >distributed architecture. > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Janos Gereben/SF >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
