HP Selects Rainbow Cryptographic Accelerators for HP 9000 Enterprise Servers

Business Wire, Dec 15, 1998

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 1998--

HP Secure Web Servers to Offer Outstanding Security Performance

for E-Commerce, Brokerage and Financial-service Applications

Hewlett-Packard Company and Rainbow Technologies, Inc. today announced an OEM purchase agreement to resell private-label versions of Rainbow's CryptoSwift line of secure-server cryptographic accelerators with HP 9000 Enterprise Servers.

CryptoSwift accelerators are the world's fastest cryptographic co-processors, capable of performing a reference RSA signature in 5 milliseconds.

"We are extremely pleased with the OEM agreement between Rainbow and HP," said Peter Craig, vice chairman of Rainbow. "Our expertise in developing high-performance cryptographic engines complements the performance of HP's secure Web server, and enables our customers to achieve higher cryptographic performance at a dramatically lower cost than before."

Rainbow's CryptoSwift products are widely deployed in Internet applications, including e-commerce, brokerage, financial services, education and other markets in which high-performance secure Web servers are required. In addition, CryptoSwift cryptographic hardware solutions support RSA cryptography.

"Together, HP and Rainbow provide superior cryptographic solutions to our customers conducting business on the Internet," said Nigel Ball, general manager of HP's Internet and Application Systems Division. "Our combined technologies will offer customers running SSL and SET secure e-commerce applications high performance for their secure Web servers."

Availability

HP expects cryptographic accelerator cards to be available first calendar quarter 1999 in the United States and Canada. License for worldwide export is pending.

About Rainbow Technologies

Founded in 1984, Rainbow Technologies is the world's leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of software protection devices and sophisticated encryption technology. Rainbow serves a wide variety of customers including software developers, IT managers, the U.S. government, aerospace and E-commerce industries. Rainbow provides solutions to software piracy, license management and Internet software distribution, software metering and management, secure web server and Virtual Private Network (IPSec) acceleration, voice, data and satellite security, and smart card readers. Rainbow has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belarus, The Netherlands, China, Russia, India and Australia, with U.S. headquarters in Irvine, California. A network of nearly 50 authorized distributors sell Rainbow products worldwide. Rainbow is ISO 9002 certified and Y2K compliant. For more information, visit our web site at www.rainbow.com or contact us at 949/450-7300.

About HP

Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 124,600 employees and had revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year.

Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.