Security suite adds multicore support

Cavium Networks will offer an evaluation version of Certicom's Suite B software tools for the Octeon and Nitrox processors.

Certicom's Suite B Power Bundle is to support the market-leading Nitrox security processors and Octeon multicore MIPS64 processors from Cavium Networks.

Under a newly signed agreement, Cavium Networks will offer an evaluation version of Certicom's Suite B software tools for the Octeon and Nitrox processors.

The joint solutions are targeted for high-security, US Government applications as part of routers, switches, servers, appliances and gateways.

Suite B is the set of cryptographic algorithms recommended by the National Security Agency (NSA) to secure classified and unclassified communications.

The private sector also is beginning to implement Suite B algorithms in a range of products and services.

Through this partnership, both Cavium and Certicom customers are able to quickly comply with the US Government's Suite B specification by integrating Cavium Processors with Certicom's software toolkits for Crypto, SSL, SSH and SRTP that are FIPS-validated and Suite B-enabled.

The need for meeting stringent federal standards for security is driving the demand for Certicom's NSA-approved ECC technology, which is recommended by the US Government and is also being adopted by industry to protect valuable information.

"Cavium's line of scalable security and network services processors with advanced Suite B hardware acceleration combined with Certicom's Suite B Power Bundle software tools allows our customers to be compliant with the latest government standards without compromising performance", says Rajiv Khemani, Vice President, Marketing and Sales, Cavium Networks, Cavium Networks.

"The partnership with Certicom ensures that our customers will have the most efficient and secure implementation of ECC available".

ECC is used in a growing number of sectors ranging from networking, consumer electronics, wireless devices and semiconductors to government and financial services.

In 2005, the NSA recommended ECC as the public-key crypto-system to protect classified and unclassified government communications.

Known as Suite B, these recommendations are part of an initiative to upgrade the security infrastructure of government communications to meet present and future security needs.

"ECC security technology meets the demanding requirements of many customers, including the US Government", says Bernard W Crotty, President and CEO of Certicom.

"The Cavium partnership provides our network infrastructure customers the critical public key infrastructure needed to develop end-to-end ECC enabled network products with the highest performance implementations available".

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