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Intel's IA-64 architecture incorporates unique features to provide breakthrough performance on RSA algorithms in SSL authentication. These features include massive resources for security performance: many functional units, large number of registers, and a fully pipelined integer multiply-add.

"RSA Security and Intel have worked closely together to design technologies that help software developers create secure applications on this exciting new platform," said Scott Schnell, senior vice president of marketing for RSA Security. "The Intel Itanium processor promises a quantum leap in performance over existing architectures, and our new RSA BSAFE components will help even more through specific encryption and digital signature optimizations."

"Intel congratulates RSA Security's accomplishment in fine tuning RSA BSAFE's algorithms using software pipelining and other IA-64 capabilities," said Ron Curry, director of marketing for Intel's IA-64 Processor Division. "The combination of Intel's Itanium™ processor with RSA Security's software will address the rapidly evolving e-business needs for secure, responsive, and customized environments."

RSA BSAFE Crypto-C software is one of the world's best-selling cryptography engines and provides software developers with multiple algorithms and modules for adding encryption and authentication features to applications. RSA BSAFE software includes modules for popular security encryption techniques, such as RSA™, DES, RC2®, RC4®, RC5™, and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), and also supports digital signatures and certificates. RSA BSAFE Crypto-C software is designed to help developers build a wide range of secure applications -- including digitally signed forms; private Internet communications; signed, tamperproof applications; secure wireless communications and virtual private networks. RSA BSAFE Crypto-C's component architecture is designed to make it simple to integrate and able to adapt to future security standards and technologies.

RSA BSAFE SSL-C software is designed to give software developers everything they need to implement the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2 and v3) protocol, as well as the Transport Layer Security (TLS v1.0) protocol, for banking, financial services, Web publishing, government and other consumer and electronic commerce applications. RSA BSAFE SSL-C software includes extensive production quality sample code, API libraries, certificate authority components, a wide range of socket libraries, full user and API documentation plus other important features that help developers create secure SSL-enabled applications quickly and more cost-effectively.

About RSA Security Inc.
RSA Security Inc., The Most Trusted Name in e-Security™, helps organizations build secure, trusted foundations for e-businesses through its RSA SecurID® two-factor authentication, RSA BSAFE® encryption and RSA Keon™ public key management systems. With nearly a half billion RSA BSAFE-enabled applications in use worldwide, more than six million RSA SecurID users and almost 20 years of industry experience, RSA Security has the proven leadership and innovative technology to address the changing security needs of e-business and bring trust to the new, online economy. RSA Security can be reached at www.rsasecurity.com.

NOTE: BSAFE, SecurID RC2® and RC4®, are registered trademarks, and Keon, RC5, RSA and The Most Trusted Name in e-Security are trademarks of RSA Security Inc. All other products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.