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Top Technology, Media and Financial Firms Lead Formation of Consortium for Efficient Embedded Security

Representatives from Texas Instruments, Sony, NTRU, MasterCard International, Intel and Diversinet Among Charter Members Defining Interoperable Security Standards for Wireless and Consumer Applications

BURLINGTON, MA - March 27, 2001 - Founding members of the Consortium for Efficient Embedded Security (CEES) today held a charter meeting to initiate the development of universal standards for creating secure, interoperable implementations of highly efficient, highly scalable public key security. By defining standards for deploying the most efficient, scalable embedded security solutions, CEES is meeting the need to support emerging digital infrastructures with new innovations in public key security. The first draft of CEES standards will be based on the NTRU Public Key Cryptosystem (PKCS).

"Enormous investments in wireless and consumer infrastructures are mandating the need for stronger, more efficient security," said Daniel Lieman, Ph.D., CEES chair and NTRU co-founder. "Demands upon enterprise security solutions to support the efficiency and scalability requirements of mass-market adoption of wireless and embedded consumer applications are testing the bounds of today's security infrastructures. The CEES recognizes that new security infrastructures are emerging and that they must be carefully, but rapidly, defined."

CEES is a cooperative multi-organizational effort with oversight and contributions from leading companies and academia. Charter members include representatives from Aereous, C-SAM, Diversinet, Intel, MasterCard International, NTRU, Setec, Solid.™, Sony, Texas Instruments, University of Minnesota, University of Missouri, Macquarie University, and Wave Systems.

"Next generation wireless appliances will demand efficient security techniques in order to support leading edge applications including mobile commerce, wireless enterprise networking and secure data delivery," said David Potts, worldwide applications manager, TI's OMAP platform. "By utilizing more than ten years of wireless system expertise, TI looks forward to setting the next standard for secure wireless data delivery."

"New standards are needed in order to ensure interoperability within wired and wireless environments and allow for the timely deployment of emerging security infrastructures," said David Stern, strategic initiatives engineer for the Advanced Development Network Equipment Division of Intel. "We are developing core building block technologies that developers can use to increase the security of their systems and applications."

The CEES will enable device manufacturers, application developers, content providers, and security solution providers to accelerate the deployment of secure digital infrastructures and applications. The CEES standards are compatible with the draft IEEE P1363.1 standards for the NTRU PKCS.

"The introduction of the CEES consortium, particularly the focus on a universal standard for interoperable high performance public key security, represents a major milestone for the wireless market," said Hussam Mahgoub, vice president of products, Diversinet Corp. "Diversinet is pleased to be a part of the CEES consortium and will contribute our extensive experience in developing highly efficient next-generation security solutions for m-commerce, multimedia and content protection."

CEES standards will specify standard parameter choices, key sizes, certificate formats, encoding methods, OID numbers, protocols, architectures, security models and efficient implementations, as well as other critical information.

For more information about CEES, visit www.ceesstandards.org.

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