Two vendors of digital security products said Monday they will work together to combine
technologies to provide wireless security.
VeriSign Inc. said its Wireless Trust Services will use Elliptic Curve
Cryptopgraphy (ECC) technology developed by Certicom. Specifically, VeriSign
will attempt to market security products for wireless devices that use RSA-signed ECC digital
certificates.
VeriSign develops infrastructure for secure Web sites while Certicom develops underlying
security for a variety of computing applications. RSA is a widely used security technology in the
desktop and wired environment and Certicom’s ECC technology has been scaled for use on
low-footprint wireless devices.
“For wireless e-commerce to succeed, application developers and service providers must deliver
the same degree of trust and security which people have come to expect from the wired
Internet,” said Anil Pereira, senior vice president of VeriSign’s enterprise and service provider
division. “Our alliance with Certicom is designed to enable just that.”
Separately, Openwave Systems Inc. announced it will include VeriSign’s security products,
particularly its digital certificate technology, in its Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) browser and server products.