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Netscape adds security module
By Tim Clark
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
October 14, 1998, 4:05 p.m. PT
Seeking to boost the visibility of its security offerings, Netscape
Communications next week will announce that other software vendors are
embedding its directory and certificate servers in their offerings.
Netscape also will unveil a new security module for software developers
and systems integrators to add Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security to
their e-commerce applications.
"The biggest deal is the directory integration," said Marlo Kosanovich, a
security analyst at Meta Group. "Users have been tired of managing
multiple directories, one in each application or network resource."
By using Netscape Directory Server, different applications or devices can
be managed from a single directory. Check Point firewalls and Bay Networks
switches will use the Netscape directory, basically swapping out their
internal directories to manage security and use Netscape's instead.
It also named 20 vendors that are embedding Netscape's directory and
certificate servers into their offerings.
The new SSL security module, called Netscape Security Services (NSS), does
not compete with SSL toolkits from RSA Data Security and other
cryptography vendors, said Karen Horwitz, Netscape senior product
marketing manager.
"We have been packaged modules we use to incorporate SSL into our own
applications, and now we have packaged them so third-party vendors can use
the same modules," Horwitz said. StampMaster, which offers postage stamps
over the Internet, is using NSS.
The standard version of NNS is now available for $70,000 per application
with no royalties. A version that has been certified for the federal
government's FIPS 140-I costs $150,000.
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