Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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Alright, here is the version I put up a short time ago and I added the stuff from wave's website that Awk put up. If some one want to take all of this and bring it down to something short and sweet, go for it.

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Wave Systems Corporation has patented technologies for secure e-commerce. It is a programmable system-in-a-system that enables virtually any platform to serve as a "trusted client." This means that third-party applets can be licensed to run securely inside a hardened EMBASSY on the client side. This puts security, trust, and microtransactional flexibility at the point of consumption. EMBASSY is an enabling technology for the "trusted client" paradigm exemplified by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) formed by AMD, Compaq, HP, IBM, Intel and Microsoft: http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/home Interoperability within a Platform Type is a subset of Interoperability between Platform Types

Wave Systems, Corporation (Wave) is delivering patented technologies to the client-server user community that offers improved security from the center to the edges of the user’s network. Being one of the pioneers in the development of hardware-based security solutions, Wave has evolved from its early beginnings as a security and metering silicon chipset developer to become the leading provider of seamless, trusted-computing utilities.

These utilities enable a variety of secure client-side transactional features and functionalities, while also working to ensure the integrity, privacy, transitioning, and/or recovery of the user’s trust-keys, encrypted material, documents and digital signatures. These user secrets will be hidden from unwanted attack via a TPM (Trusted Platform Module), a separate storage area set aside inside in the client CPU, used to hide these secrets.

Over time, these, and other trust utilities and services, are expected to be upgraded and maintained via a TAN (Trust Assurance Network), a secure attestation server and key-manager designed to ensure that the user attempting to conduct a specific transaction is a trusted computer, having the appropriate keys and profile needed to complete the secure transaction.

The Embassy (EMBedded Application Security SYstem) Trust Suite of utilities and services is currently available through the Wave website (www.wave.com), and is also currently being offered as a bundled solution via the Intel D865GRM motherboard solution, and via National Semi Conductor ‘s (NSM) Safekeeper 21100.

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Wave is building the infrastructure and services to enable the deployment and management of trusted computing platforms. The services and infrastructure are designed to be flexible and deliver solutions within the framework of such industry initiatives as the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, and other security initiatives recently launched by Intel and Microsoft.
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Wave’s programmable EMBASSY® technology enables the establishment of a network of hardware trusted clients – embedded in personal computers, peripherals such as smart card readers and keyboards, and mobile devices. Additionally, EMBASSY technology is available in cryptographically-protected solutions as enabling utilities and end-to-end client server solutions for products from leading silicon suppliers National Semiconductor and Infineon Technologies. EMBASSY technology includes embedded libraries and firmware for the silicon providers to license.

Today, Wave’s EMBASSY Suite of Secure Services can add to the value of hardened security as offered by the National Semiconductor SafeKeeper™ PC21100 Module or Infineon’s Trusted Platform Module by offering a suite of enhanced applications for trusted digital signatures, secure document storage, secure document management and powerful privacy options.

A key component of Wave’s EMBASSY offer is the Trust Assurance Network (TAN). The TAN is an optional server infrastructure that can manage trust domains, platform integrity, trusted platform management infrastructure and the distribution of secure applications and services to platforms containing trusted hardware. The TAN allows for ongoing upgrading of the combined product solutions, including the services, after the products have reached the marketplace. Working with partners, Wave delivers EMBASSY services that provide a cost effective TCPA-compliant solution with services that will both generate new revenue opportunities today, while forming the basis of trust necessary for a thriving e-commerce infrastructure in the future.