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Canadian encryption experts to guard secret U.S. data
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 01:10:38 -0500
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2122967.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni By Reuters Special to CNET News.com June 21, 2000, 2:15 p.m. PT TORONTO--Canada's Kasten Chase has been given the exclusive go-ahead by the U.S. National Security Agency to safeguard top-secret government data, which could make the recent theft of computer hard drives laden with nuclear secrets from Los Alamos National Laboratory a nonissue in the future. Toronto-based Kasten Chase became the first company to be endorsed by the security agency to encrypt the hard drives, not just the data, the company said today. "If those (Los Alamos) devices had our media encrypter, when they were switched on by anybody that had stolen them, they would have been absolutely useless," Kasten's chief executive Paul Hyde told Reuters in a telephone interview. The only thing preventing the breach of a hard drive today is the operating system's initial passwords, said Hyde. "With our system, you could rip that thing to shreds and you couldn't get to it. There is no way that data would be accessible," he added. Kasten Chase's RASP Secure Media system is "necessary and sufficient" to encrypt military, police and intelligence agencies' mission-critical information to the "classified secret" level, said Michael Flemming, chief of the National Security Agency's Information Assurance Solutions Group. "We are pleased to certify the RASP Secure Media product as meeting our requirements for encrypting information on computer storage media," Flemming sai in a statement. Kasten already has a product in use by about 90 government agencies, since certification in June 1999, that allows remote users to access classified data, said Hyde. Also, Kasten said today that it would integrate its products with Alcatel's Virtual Private Network, a secure corporate or government intranet that works through the Internet. ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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