Australia's Senetas Corporation releases 10 Gbps Multicast Encryptor
Newswire Services
February 28, 2010
Senetas Corporation Limited (ASX:SEN), Australia´s world-leading designer and manufacturer of high speed network encryption, has released a new multicast encryptor (Patent Pending) designed to secure converged networks and protect the "triple play" of voice, video and data.
The Senetas encryptor accredited to Common Criteria EAL4+ (and in the final stages of FIPS 140-2 Level 3 accreditation) secures data in motion from a host to all members of a multicast group at rates from 10Mbps up to 10 Gigabits per second.
Senetas chief technologist, Julian Fay said it was designed to provide the highest level of information security to applications including video conferencing, internet based TV, online gaming and distribution of critical business applications.
Mr Fay said the new encryptor functionality could also be deployed to protect military multicast traffic, as it used the AES256-bit algorithm, approved by the U.S. Government National Security Agency in 2003 to protect classified information up to the ´top secret´ level.
The Senetas solution employs an innovative approach to solve the problem of maintaining secrecy in large dynamic groups that requires a group key management infrastructure.
"Senetas has developed an automatic group key management solution which is extremely simple to deploy and allows each encryptor to securely share individual encryption keys with all members of the group".
"The group key management scheme, which is patent pending, is responsible for ensuring group keys are maintained across the visible network and is designed to be secure, dynamic and robust. It is fault tolerant, with an ability to survive network outages and self-healing as it can adapt to topology changes automatically.
"For maximum resilience Senetas´ group key management scheme does not rely on an external key server to distribute group keys as this potentially introduces critical impediments to high availability network communications – a single point of failure and a single point of compromise," Mr Fay explained.
The Senetas encryptor accredited to Common Criteria EAL4+ (and in the final stages of FIPS 140-2 Level 3 accreditation) secures data in motion from a host to all members of a multicast group at rates from 10Mbps up to 10 Gigabits per second.
Senetas chief technologist, Julian Fay said it was designed to provide the highest level of information security to applications including video conferencing, internet based TV, online gaming and distribution of critical business applications.
Mr Fay said the new encryptor functionality could also be deployed to protect military multicast traffic, as it used the AES256-bit algorithm, approved by the U.S. Government National Security Agency in 2003 to protect classified information up to the ´top secret´ level.
The Senetas solution employs an innovative approach to solve the problem of maintaining secrecy in large dynamic groups that requires a group key management infrastructure.
"Senetas has developed an automatic group key management solution which is extremely simple to deploy and allows each encryptor to securely share individual encryption keys with all members of the group".
"The group key management scheme, which is patent pending, is responsible for ensuring group keys are maintained across the visible network and is designed to be secure, dynamic and robust. It is fault tolerant, with an ability to survive network outages and self-healing as it can adapt to topology changes automatically.
"For maximum resilience Senetas´ group key management scheme does not rely on an external key server to distribute group keys as this potentially introduces critical impediments to high availability network communications – a single point of failure and a single point of compromise," Mr Fay explained.
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