Yo barge: Nintendo Selects RSA Security
to Protect Gaming Assets on Its New Nintendo DS Game Console RSA BSAFE(R) Products Provide Proven Embedded Security Technology for the Latest Portable Digital Entertainment Devices
BEDFORD, Mass., Feb 02, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- RSA Security
Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS) announced today that Nintendo Co., Ltd. has licensed micro
and full editions of its RSA BSAFE(R) encryption solutions for use in the
newly-released Nintendo DS(TM) portable game console. These solutions provide
protection for games as they are played and shared across wireless links between
Nintendo DS devices. It allows Nintendo to offer the latest interactive gaming
capabilities for consumers while ensuring that the valuable assets of its
numerous game development partners are protected.
Nintendo is one of the pioneers in the portable gaming market and the current
market leader. The new wireless features of the Nintendo DS allow certain games
to be shared and played interactively among users. RSA BSAFE technology is used
to protect the digital rights of game publishers for titles shared over these
wireless links. The technology also allows Nintendo to protect game software
that is issued on a trial basis for play in retail stores and other demo
environments. All of this combines to give confidence to game publishers and
developers for the Nintendo DS platform that their new interactive titles will
operate in a secure, trusted environment and that consumers will get the safe,
reliable gaming experience they have come to expect from Nintendo.
"Nintendo's use of our embedded RSA BSAFE technology in its portable game
console is a great endorsement of our leadership in providing the security
components consumer device manufacturers need, in order to offer protection for
digital entertainment assets on their platforms," says Rick Welch, Vice
President of Developer Solutions and Professional Services at RSA Security. "We
are known for providing highly customizable and standards-based security
components that meet the constrained resource requirements of consumer devices.
Our continued innovation in providing technology for protecting these assets,
further realized in the upcoming release of our RSA BSAFE Mobile Rights
Management product, makes us the trusted security partner consumer electronics
manufacturers can rely on to deliver the security components they need for their
next-generation devices."
RSA Security's 20 years of experience developing security standards and
technologies, including critical security protocols such as SSL -- one of the
backbones of Internet electronic commerce -- is brought to bear in the
development of the core technologies needed for effective asset protection for
digital entertainment devices and services. The company is also a recognized
leader in providing encryption, public key infrastructure, and other embedded
security products and services for a broad range of electronic devices.
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