UK company taken over by security giant.
Global security superpower
Trend Micro
has invested in a small email encryption firm based in Bristol, UK.
The company,
Identum
, emerged from Bristol University’s cryptography department five years ago, and markets an AES-based encryption software under the name
Private Post
, using public keys generated from a combination of the recipient’s email address and a global public key. The firm will change its name to
Trend Micro (Bristol) Ltd
.
The existing product line will continue to be sold, rebranded into the
Trend
stable, but no details of future plans for the technology, or the costs involved in the buyout, have yet emerged.
A press release on the deal is on the
Trend Micro
site
here
or at
Identum
here
. A white paper on
SK-KEM
, the technology behind the
Private Post
system, is
here
(PDF file).
Posted on 25 February 2008 by
Virus Bulletin
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