Trend Micro buys email encryption firm
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).
25 February 2008
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