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Top Technology, Media and Financial Firms Lead Formation of Consortium for Efficient Embedded Security
Representatives from Texas Instruments, Sony, NTRU, MasterCard International,
Intel and Diversinet Among Charter Members Defining Interoperable
Security Standards for Wireless and Consumer Applications

BURLINGTON, MA - March 27, 2001 - Founding members of the Consortium for Efficient Embedded Security (CEES) today held a charter meeting to initiate the development of universal standards for creating secure, interoperable implementations of highly efficient, highly scalable public key security. By defining standards for deploying the most efficient, scalable embedded security solutions, CEES is meeting the need to support emerging digital infrastructures with new innovations in public key security. The first draft of CEES standards will be based on the NTRU Public Key Cryptosystem (PKCS).

"Enormous investments in wireless and consumer infrastructures are mandating the need for stronger, more efficient security," said Daniel Lieman, Ph.D., CEES chair and NTRU co-founder. "Demands upon enterprise security solutions to support the efficiency and scalability requirements of mass-market adoption of wireless and embedded consumer applications are testing the bounds of today's security infrastructures. The CEES recognizes that new security infrastructures are emerging and that they must be carefully, but rapidly, defined."

CEES is a cooperative multi-organizational effort with oversight and contributions from leading companies and academia. Charter members include representatives from Aereous, C-SAM, Diversinet, Intel, MasterCard International, NTRU, Setec, Solid, Sony, Texas Instruments, University of Minnesota, University of Missouri, Macquarie University, and Wave Systems.

"Next generation wireless appliances will demand efficient security techniques in order to support leading edge applications including mobile commerce, wireless enterprise networking and secure data delivery," said David Potts, worldwide applications manager, TI's OMAP platform. "By utilizing more than ten years of wireless system expertise, TI looks forward to setting the next standard for secure wireless data delivery."

"New standards are needed in order to ensure interoperability within wired and wireless environments and allow for the timely deployment of emerging security infrastructures," said David Stern, strategic initiatives engineer for the Advanced Development Network Equipment Division of Intel. "We are developing core building block technologies that developers can use to increase the security of their systems and applications."

The CEES will enable device manufacturers, application developers, content providers, and security solution providers to accelerate the deployment of secure digital infrastructures and applications. The CEES standards are compatible with the draft IEEE P1363.1 standards for the NTRU PKCS.

"The introduction of the CEES consortium, particularly the focus on a universal standard for interoperable high performance public key security, represents a major milestone for the wireless market," said Hussam Mahgoub, vice president of products, Diversinet Corp. "Diversinet is pleased to be a part of the CEES consortium and will contribute our extensive experience in developing highly efficient next-generation security solutions for m-commerce, multimedia and content protection."

CEES standards will specify standard parameter choices, key sizes, certificate formats, encoding methods, OID numbers, protocols, architectures, security models and efficient implementations, as well as other critical information.

For more information about CEES, visit www.ceesstandards.org.
http://www.ntru.com/about/pr_20010327.htm

Consortium for Efficient Embedded Security
Symposium on Embedded Security

Security Ownership & Trust Models for Securing Consumer Applications
July 10, 2001
Tuesday, 9 - 4 pm
Omni Parker House
Boston, Mass.

Sponsored by

Featured Speakers and Panelists
Warwick Ford, CTO, VeriSign
Sunil Hattangady, Program Manager, OMAP Security, Texas Instruments
Dr. Burton Kaliski, Chief Scientist, RSA Laboratories
Dr. David Kravitz, Chief Scientist, Wave Systems
Dr. John Manferdelli, Manager, Unified DRM Group, Microsoft
Simon Pugh, VP, Standards & Infrastructure, Global e-Business, MasterCard International
Marc Rotenberg, Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Jeremy Wyant, Standards & Applications Manager, NTRU

Symposium Agenda
This meeting brings together recognized experts and executives from the technical cryptographic, infrastructure developer, equipment manufacturer, content owner, and semiconductor manufacturer industries to discuss, for the first time, the usage and security requirements inherent in emerging consumer applications and devices.
This daylong event will address the usage and security requirements inherent in emerging consumer applications and devices. Topics to be discussed include security and trust models for mass-market secure systems, roles of the manufacturer, merchant, content owner and device owner, and supported security algorithms and protocols.
Specifically, some of the topics to be addressed at this daylong event will include:

1) Roles of the manufacturer, merchant, device holder, content owner
2) Security model(s) for mass-market secure systems
3) Security requirements for each role (manufacturer, merchant, etc.)
4) Use cases and usage scenarios for secure devices and applications
5) Key management and role management on the secure device

Presenter: Burt Kaliski, Chief Scientist, RSA Laboratories
New Challenges in Embedded Security: Abstract: The pervasive, intelligent, and interdependent computing devices of the near future will need embedded security features to identify each other, authenticate exchanged information such as software upgrades, and defend against tampering. Since the device manufacturer, device owner, and information provider will generally be completely different authorities, new challenges about device ownershipand trust must be addressed. This talk will explore the need for and challenges of embedded security, and offer suggestions for research and standards development.

Presenter: John Manferdelli, Manager of Unified DRM Group, Microsoft
Abstract: The talk will explore the technical infrastructure for Digital Rights Management (DRM) as well as its place within the larger contextof security. Key concepts include authentication of principals, rights languages, isolated computation, trusted software and platform secrets.In addition, we'll explore some of the business models and conditions affecting the success of DRM including user requirements like privacy and usability. We'll also mention some common misconceptions about DRM and some applications to general distributed security. Finally, we'll talk about Microsoft's DRM strategy and its place in the DRM ecology.

After the meeting, the CEES will take up the task of drafting standards to address the issues identified at the Symposium.

NTRU Professional Services Team and Microsoft to Develop Next-Generation Computing Solutions
http://www.businesswire.com/webbox/bw.072103/232025004.htm

NTRU Launches Professional Services Unit in Collaboration With World's Leading Software Vendor

BURLINGTON, Mass. July 21, 2003--

"We applaud NTRU for creating a new professional services group and we welcome their contributions as we work to develop the Next Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB)," said John Manferdelli, general manager of the Windows Trusted Platform Infrastructures group at Microsoft Corp. NGSCB is a new security technology for the Microsoft Windows platform. It uses a unique hardware and software design to give people new kinds of security and privacy protections in an interconnected world. NGSCB will be integrated into a future version of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

NTRU Releases the First Universal Security Product for All Platforms Relying on the Trusted Platform Module (TPM)

First-To-Market Universal TCG Software Stack (TSS) Enables Widespread Deployment of Trusted Computing Devices
http://www.ntru.com/about/pr_20040217.htm