2002

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Leading Industry Analysts Demonstrate Support for NTRU's Strong, Fast Security for RFID and Wireless

NTRU Praised for Meeting New Security Demands of Constrained Devices

Burlington, Mass. - January 28, 2002 - NTRU, the only provider of strong security that fits everywhere, today announced that leading industry analysts have endorsed the company's encryption technology designed for wireless, mobile and RFID devices and applications. In recently released reports, analysts at Summit Strategies and Baroudi Group, two leading research firms, praised NTRU's ability to provide strong, fast security for wireless and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices and applications.

"High manufacturing costs, slow processing speed and power drain have all posed significant barriers for securing RFID applications, making them fundamentally insecure and vulnerable," said Scott Crenshaw, CEO of NTRU. "Today, industry experts have recognized that NTRU security eliminates these obstacles by delivering strong security that meets key industry requirements: tiny size, high speed, and minimal power consumption. The result is the only public-key security that fits RFID at all price points, paving the way for strong, scalable security that unlocks new markets for high-growth applications."

RFID enables the identification, tracking and locating of merchandise, people, inventory, and transactions at any time and anywhere throughout the entire supply chain. The NTRU public key cryptography system is the only solution with the ability to deliver strong, efficient security to RFID applications and products, including low-cost contactless cards, key fobs, tags and labels. Moreover, NTRU technology eliminates the significant cost of security inherent in today's RFID solutions.

Summit Strategies' Upfront analysis, titled "NTRU Security May Be Key to New Markets," states that "NTRU's technology is well suited to applications that require high security and either or both of two other factors: great scalability (millions of luggage tags, for example), or tight device constraints (in size, cost, battery life, memory or processor power). Both the RFID and wireless-communications markets fit this profile and thus present major opportunities for NTRU."

"Security poses a double threat to the broad adoption of wireless business applications. IT managers must protect not only wireless data as it is transmitted over the air, but also the devices themselves and the data stored inside them," said Warren Wilson, practice director at Summit Strategies. "Both problems are so complex and so different that a solution for one typically isn't well suited to the other. NTRU has developed a technology that I think provides an elegant solution for both."

In its report, "Enabling Secure, Mass-Market, Wireless and RFID Applications -NTRU Holds the Keys," the Baroudi Group further validates NTRU's advantages for wireless and RFID applications, stating, "NTRU has introduced encryption technology based on fundamentally different, and newer, algorithms. They report performance up to 500 times faster than competing technologies at similar levels of security protection. The speed advantage results in a huge power savings when each second of computing costs precious battery power."

"The NTRU solution is a real coup for mass market applications," said Eric Livingston, lead security analyst at the Baroudi Group. "The NTRU solution can go where no other solution yet can-into disposable RFID chips embedded into ski tickets or baggage tags at airports, for instance, where it would be too costly to embed complex chips to support other encryption technologies."

About NTRU

NTRU is the only provider of strong security that fits everywhere. Based on the most fundamental innovation in cryptography in more than 20 years, NTRU eliminates historic price, performance and usability tradeoffs in security. NTRU delivers strong, fast security that operates with minimal power consumption and fits into a tiny footprint making it easy for customers to build devices that people trust. NTRU security is gaining widespread adoption in the radio frequency identification (RFID), mobile communications, multimedia and embedded markets. Headquartered in Burlington, Mass., NTRU is backed by Texas Instruments, Sony Corporation, Macrovision, Lehman Brothers Venture Capital, Investor AB, Granite Ventures, Greylock and 3i. For more information, visit www.ntru.com.

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