SOMERSET, NJ--(Marketwire - September 10, 2008) - AEP Networks, provider of secure networking
and identity-based access products, and PrimeKey Solutions, one of the
leading open source Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) companies, today
announced an agreement whereby the AEP Keyper hardware security module
(HSM) and PrimeKey's products and services will be integrated to create
solutions for digital rights management, financial services and the public
sector. With this alliance, PrimeKey will become an authorized reseller of
the AEP Keyper product worldwide and AEP Networks will become an authorized
reseller of PrimeKey's services worldwide.
"Digital certificates are being used to identify parties and to prove
authenticity and data integrity. As PKI is becoming widely adopted and
more applications are required to interoperate, there is a need for
cost-effective infrastructure that can be fully integrated in the
organization business process," said Pat Donnellan, CEO of AEP Networks.
"PrimeKey is able to integrate our Keyper HSM to develop custom PKI
solutions that provide a high-performance and tamper-resistant environment
for the associated cryptographic processes."
The ability to positively identify users and authenticate documents is a
fundamental security element. The PrimeKey/AEP PKI solution issues the
digital certificates which enable users to access and sign documents by
proving integrity and authenticity. The private keys used to sign these
certificates are securely stored and managed inside AEP Keyper HSM. The
signed data can neither be modified nor altered during the transaction
ensuring the integrity of the transmitted information.
"PrimeKey and AEP Networks already have a joint customer (concealed Fortune
500 customer) using the PrimeKey CA / AEP Keyper solution for digital
rights management," said Konstantin Papaxanthis, CEO of PrimeKey. "And we
have several other projects underway with public sector, police and defense
customers to meet their very stringent security requirements."
The two companies will launch a seminar series discussing EJBCA, Keyper and
related products. The first seminar will be held in New York City in early
November focusing on the Banking, Insurance and Financial Services sectors.
More About PrimeKey Products
-- EJBCA is an advanced Certificate Authority (CA) issuing and
administrating digital certificates. It is based on the open source project
www.ejbca.org registered at SourceForge.net. PrimeKey started the EJBCA
project and is administrating, maintaining and leading the project. It is
one of the 50 top-ranked projects among 180,000 open source projects. With
EJBCA, a customer is given the possibility on a technical and businesslike
way to have their own 'Certificate Factory'. EJBCA is a robust, platform
independent, high performance, scalable and component based PKI solution.
EJBCA lowers total cost of ownership through a no-cost open source license
and flexible software that runs on virtually any system.
-- EJBCA OCSP Responder is an Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
responder operating externally and independently of the CA. In sensitive
environments it is possible to deploy the OCSP responder as an external
component, without any inbound connection to the CA. The OCSP responder can
be replicated to multiple hosts and therefore is scalable to the desired
performance.
-- SignServer is a server-side framework designed to perform automated
signatures and other cryptographic operations on digital documents, on
behalf of business applications. The server uses plug-ins for customer
specific applications and can also be clustered for high availability. One
standard plug-in is a Time Stamp Authority signer generating timestamps
according to RFC 3161. Other examples are MailSigner and PDFSigner.
More About AEP Keyper
-- AEP Keyper is the most comprehensive cryptographic HSM of its class
for secure key management offering PKI administrators the highest levels of
assurance and performance. The ACCE technology, at the heart of Keyper,
guarantees the safety and integrity of critical key material. Keyper is a
tamper reactive, Ethernet-connected HSM certified to FIPS 140-2 Level 4.
About PrimeKey Solutions AB
PrimeKey Solutions AB is a Swedish IT-security company with niched
competence in information and system security and product development
within Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and smart card appliances.
PrimeKey's vision is to provide state-of-the-art solutions that integrate
with customer application environments. We help our customers and partners
to solve concrete business needs in a cost-effective way, with strong
emphasis on security issues. Our goal is to maintain and improve our
position as leaders, in providing security solutions and services, by
employing the resources at our disposal combined with our unique expertise.
About AEP Networks
AEP Networks offers a comprehensive Policy Networking solution that
provides complete security starting at the endpoints and working throughout
a network -- from the edge to the core. AEP's integrated portfolio of
security products includes identity-based network and resource access
control, SSL VPNs, high assurance IPSec-based VPN encryptors, and hardware
security modules for key management. Our products address the most
demanding security requirements of public-sector organizations and
commercial enterprises internationally. The company is headquartered in
Somerset, New Jersey, with offices worldwide. For more information, visit
www.aepnetworks.com.