Certicom Launches Suite B Hardware Security Power Bundle

By Janet Harris

Certicom has announced the Suite B Hardware Security Power Bundle to help developers add Suite B compliant algorithms to their hardware-based security with proven and standards-based implementations.

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

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

Suite B includes elliptic curve cryptography, which is becoming the standard for public key algorithms.

The Suite B Hardware Security Power Bundle includes:

    -   Security Builder(R) PKCS No.11(TM) and Security Builder(R) BSP(TM)
    -   Certicom(R) Security for Silicon Design Protection(TM)
    -   Configurable AES Core 
    -   Configurable SHA-2 Core 
    -   True Random Number Generator Core

Certicom is based in Mississauga, ON, Canada with worldwide sales and marketing headquarters in Reston, VA and offices in the US, Canada and Europe.