SSL on a chip, EE Times

[M Taylor]

Startup eyes SSL security ICs
By Loring Wirbel 
EE Times
(10/01/01, 3:57 p.m. EST) 

http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011001S0084

AUSTIN, Texas -- A security-processor startup has become the latest 
advocate of hardwired acceleration of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) 
session creation. Layer N Networks Inc. is aligning with the likes 
of Broadcom Corp. and Andes Networks Inc. in promoting SSL for 
secure transactions, instead of programmable encryption and Internet 
Protocol tunneling. 

The Austin-based startup is gambling that the market for this 
technology will mature at the same pace as its own product development, 
so that there will be customers when it is ready to start shipping 
product. Layer N is aiming to deliver a chip set in early 2002, and 
chief executive officer Mike Salas believes the market will be mature 
enough by then to warrant an IC-level product. 
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