IP: Look what Gil Amelio is up to (fwd)

[Eugene Leitl]

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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:32:32 -0500
From: David Farber <dave at farber.net>
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Subject: IP: Look what Gil Amelio is up to


>From: "Janos G." <janos451 at earthlink.net>
>
>       Viaquo ups security in permissioning software distribution
>       Janos Gereben - www.the451.com
>
>       Using cryptographic techniques developed by a former CIA scientist,
>San Jose-based Viaquo is expected to participate in the upcoming RSA
>conference by releasing a security "permissioning platform," called ViaSeal.
>The451 has learned ahead of the release about some aspects of this
>distributed-architecture, scalable control device of enterprise-wide
>information and digital content.
>
>       Viaquo is a two-year-old San Jose, California, company, headed by Gil
>Amelio, formerly CEO of Apple Computer and National Semiconductor. Primary
>backers of the company are Sienna Ventures, VenGlobal Capital Fund and Hsieh
>Investment Limited Partners.
>
>       ViaSeal will be deployed either as a stand-alone product or through
>ViaSeal's application programming interface (API). Typical public key
>infrastructure-based access control systems are difficult to scale because
>content encrypting keys are individually encrypted and transmitted to each
>user who, additionally, need a separate, individual certificate. ViaSeal is
>reported to enable each authorized user with a set of credentials in a
>security profile that allows accessing the file, and so as the system grows
>in number of users, each user brings additional computing resource required
>to create or consume the content. The central server has no increased burden
>due to the security system and the system scales to any number of users.
>
>       Context Permissioning is being developed to fill the need to control
>and secure data in new modes of distribution. The old model worked via
>fixed-function standalone video terminals with a dedicated analog connection
>to an information provider. In that scenario, the control of data was easier
>in that the vendor was responsible for distribution and simply declared the
>number of terminals installed and the data permissioned on each terminal to
>the source provider. That situation changed radically as tens of thousands
>of users may want access to a single document or music track on a
>centralized server under old PKI, meaning that the same number of key
>exchanges and certificate verifications must be calculated and dispensed by
>that server.
>
>       Technology ViaSeal is a role-based access control (RBAC) system, a
>software-based tool, which may be incorporated into existing software tools
>and improve overall security by simplifying the duties, tasks and
>administrative responsibilities of network administrators. Previous network
>access control systems have provided these functions, but RBAC streamlines
>the administrative process of establishing privileges and reduces management
>time for reviewing privilege assignments.
>
>       In addition to PKI and digital rights management (DRM), ViaSeal
>provides distributed access permissioning software (DAPS), which protects
>the content and not the channel. If the viability of this technology - and
>the use of extra-strength encryption, based on ANSI x9.69 standards - is
>proved, documents and files secured through ViaSeal can be sent, stored and
>transmitted over any public or private network.
>
>       Competition Britain's Transacsys introduced permissioning about a year
>ago in the context of employee relationship management, competing with
>different ERM technologies used by Siebel, PeopleSoft and others. Several of
>the 130 members of the Software and Information Industry Association's
>financial information services sector are engaged in application- or
>industry-specific permissioning development, but Viaquo is out front in
>working on security technology featuring role-based access control and
>distributed architecture.
>
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Janos Gereben/SF
>janos451 at earthlink.net
>
>

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