Overview
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and its successor Transport Layer Security (TLS) are both
protocols used to secure communications across the Internet. SSL was originally
developed by Netscape and the last version (3.0) was released in 1996. The Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) latterly built on SSL version 3.0 to define the protocol
for TLS version 1.0. Both protocols provide for key exchange using Public Key Cryptography,
certificate-based authentication, data traffic encryption and message authentication.
Helion SSL & TLS Solutions
In keeping with the modular nature of the SSL protocol which provides for extensibility and
backward compatibility, the Helion SSL solution provides a hardware acceleration framework
for all of the underlying SSL algorithms; RSA and Diffie-Hellman used for Public Key
Cryptography; ARC4, Triple DES and AES used for data encryption; and SHA-1 and MD5 hash
functions used for compression and message authentication.
Helion can provide a tailored SSL acceleration solution to optimally meet the system
requirements for many applications. Comprehensive software support is also available to
allow the user to implement a fully compliant SSL/TLS solution running in a combination of
software and hardware. Please visit our security software
partners page for more information on the availability of these fully integrated
solutions, or contact Helion to discuss any of this in more detail.
Contact
For more detailed information on these or any of our other products and services,
please feel free to email us at
helioncores@heliontech.com and we will be pleased to discuss how we can assist
with your individual requirements.
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