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Fully IPSec-Compliant SSH Sentinel Achieves New Milestones for Ease of Use and PKI Integration for OEMs and End Users

SSH Communications Security (SSH), the world-leading developer of Internet security technologies and developer of the Secure Shell standard, today announced SSH(R) Sentinel(TM), a revolutionary new IPSec (Internet Protocol Security) client software product for the Internet access OEM and end-user markets that takes full advantage of certificate-based authentication and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). With full support for all IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) IPSec standards, SSH Sentinel is the most interoperable solution available to date, providing customers with an easy and effective way to secure IP communications for uses such as remote access, file transfer, email, Web browsing, messaging, and IP telephony.

SSH Sentinel is ideal for business users who travel frequently or work from home, providing secure remote access through a company's IPSec gateway for a higher level of security and faster connection speeds through IPCOMP (Internet Protocol Compression). SSH Sentinel offers strong encryption and certificate or PSK- (Pre-Shared Key) based authentication, local LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) capability for retrieving certificates, and CRLs (Certificate Revocation Lists) with online certificate enrollment support. In addition, SSH Sentinel is capable of establishing a secured connection with strong authentication independent of a complex PKI.

"The Internet is rapidly extending critical business communications beyond the safety of corporate firewalls and VPNs. Sensitive information sent from telecommuters working at home and 'road warriors' working from hotels is an extremely high security risk," said George Adams, president and CEO of SSH, Inc. "SSH Sentinel will help OEMs eliminate these risks in their Internet access products and provide end users with the easy-to-use, robust, and transparent VPN-class security and interoperability that IPSec brings to network security solutions."

Key Features

Reliability and Ease of Use

SSH Sentinel allows users to take advantage of the latest IPSec technology, ensuring that Internet communications are safe and reliable. End users can use SSH Sentinel for modern IPSec configurations and hostile traffic filtering through an intuitive graphical interface. SSH Sentinel has a user-friendly, built-in SSH IKE Probing Mechanism(TM) that allows user to easily configure complex IPSec networks through a few simple steps.

Full Use of PKI Services

SSH Sentinel fully integrates advanced PKI technologies to provide the most advanced, interoperable certificate support available in IPSec applications software products. It supports all common certificate online enrollment protocols, multiple directory access, CRLs and automated certificate chain traversing. Furthermore, SSH Sentinel is based on SSH's world-leading IPSec technologies that have been tested for interoperability with all major CA (Certificate Authority) vendors.

Higher Performance

End users are demanding higher performance from their security products. Using modern peak-optimized implementation and a more intelligent algorithm, SSH has significantly increased both the throughput and level of encryption security. SSH Sentinel is currently the fastest software IPSec implementation available on the market, capable of over 50Mbit/s wire speeds without causing overhead to the network system. SSH Sentinel supports Twofish encryption, the strongest AES candidate, as well as a variety of other algorithms, including 3DES and DES (Data Encryption Standard) encryption.

Pricing and Availability

SSH Sentinel is available now for OEM evaluation. OEM pricing and availability information is available now for under non-disclosure agreements with SSH. SSH Sentinel for UNIX and Microsoft Windows platforms will be available for direct end user purchase next quarter.

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