Rachelelise/Svenm-Wave compatible with Cisco-Per SKS
From the recent RSA presentation linked above:
Another very important thing to understand is back in 1998 and ’99 there was a big push to add PKI. Everybody remembers Baltimore Technologies and a bunch of other players. That massive rise in market capital around PKI, facilitated building PKI support into all networking equipment and it never has gone away. So every CISCO router supports PKI. Every Juniper router does, Checkpoint firewall… This is the hardware PKI token on the client side. So this provides interoperability with anybody who ever supported the public key standards, which is about 80 to 90% of all networking equipment today. I can configure out of the box to work with Trusted Computing.
Now the challenge for the IT department is the manual doesn’t say trust Trusted Computing any where in the manual, from my CISCO VPN router. One of the things we’ve had to do as a company is publish a series of documents on how you set your Checkpoint router up or your Checkpoint firewall up with Trusted Platform Modules. It works brilliantly. It’s really easy to do. But helping that guy through that sort of first step of associating pieces that aren’t normally associated has been a challenge.
We’ve built a number of networking components to help that. The most important tool we build is a tool for backup and recovery of keys. So if you’re going to encrypt all of the data on the hard disk, then you better have some place to backup your keys, because if you forget or lose your keys you lose all the data. And that’s been a very valuable component for us.
It’s still early in selling the enterprise software because people haven’t really recognized that they have clients yet. And we provide a range of developer tools that others can use.
The way that I read this, it sounds like it is possible to make a few tweaks to Wave and a Cisco router to make them compatible. Of course, I am not a techie, and I certainly could be wrong-and I defer to the judgement of the pros on the board. It would, however, explain the positioning of the Wave-NTT VANADIS-Cisco collaboration in Japan.
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