TeamF1, Inc. Joins MIT Kerberos
Consortium as a Founding Sponsor
TeamF1, Inc. Joins MIT Kerberos
Consortium as a Founding Sponsor
Joins
community of industry leaders committed to establishing
Kerberos as the universal authentication platform for
computer networks.
FREMONT, Calif.— September 27, 2007– TeamF1,
Inc. (www.TeamF1.com),
the high-performance embedded networking and security
software company, today announced it has signed on as a
founding sponsor of the MIT Kerberos Consortium, a
non-profit group with a vision of promoting an environment
where fully functional and interoperable Kerberos-based
authentication and authorization will be as ubiquitous as
TCP/IP-based networking itself.
Led by MIT, other founding sponsors of the consortium
include Centrify Corporation, The Financial Services
Technology Consortium, Google, Sun Microsystems, Stanford
University and the University of Michigan.
Kerberos is a widely used computer network authentication
protocol which provides strong authentication for
client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography.
TeamF1 has been a long-time proponent of Kerberos, and
offers AuthAgent Kerberos, the company's leading secure
authentication product for embedded devices. AuthAgent
Kerberos is a standards-based implementation of the
Kerberos™ V Protocol (RFC 4120), and provides the "magic
sauce" required for network client software as well as
network services running on embedded devices to easily be
Kerberos-enabled ("kerberized"). Recently, TeamF1 upgraded
AuthAgent Kerberos to include advanced PKINIT support for
PKCS#11 digital certificates, such as ones stored in
smartcards and used in DoD CAC authentication.
“We are very pleased to be part of this organization which
shares TeamF1’s vision of the future of ubiquitous secure
connectivity,” said Mukesh Lulla, president of TeamF1.
“Kerberos is now part of virtually all modern commercial
desktop and server operating systems but still remains
largely untapped in networked embedded systems. TeamF1’s
AuthAgent Kerberos has been leading the way in making this
technology available to embedded devices, and has helped
many smart devices enable secure authentication for
connecting to services on the network and for providing such
services. It is our privilege to contribute back to the
Kerberos development community that made this all possible,
and to help further its efforts via this sponsorship.”
“We are pleased to have TeamF1 as a Founding Sponsor of the
MIT Kerberos Consortium", said Stephen C. Buckley, the
Consortium's Executive Director. "The expertise in embedded
networking and security that TeamF1 brings to the table will
enhance our capabilities to create state-of-the-art security
systems for the world.”
The consortium will hold its official launch event at MIT's
Stata Center at 9:30 am EDT on September 27, 2007. Live
webcast information can be found at Kerberos Consortium web
site, www.kerberos.org.
About The MIT Kerberos Consortium
The MIT Kerberos Consortium was created to establish
Kerberos as the universal authentication platform for the
world's computer networks. Building upon the existing
Kerberos protocol suite, the Consortium will develop
interoperable technologies to enable organizations and
federated realms of organizations to use Kerberos as the
single sign-on solution for access to all applications and
services. It will also promote the adoption of these
technologies so that ultimately all operating systems,
applications, imbedded devices, and Internet based services
can utilize Kerberos for authentication and authorization.
About TeamF1
TeamF1, Inc. a privately held corporation headquartered in
Fremont, California, is a leader in high performance
embedded networking and security software. TeamF1's products
enable secure networking of telecom/datacom and industrial
equipment, and provide the infrastructure components needed
for switching and wireless products in various market
segments. For more information visit the company's website
at http://www.TeamF1.com or
contact
TeamF1 Public Relations at 510-505-9931 or email .
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