Bloombase Technologies, an enterprise information security vendor, has announced that their enterprise security product line Spitfire, extends support for Japan's newly approved block cipher named "Camellia."
Spitfire enterprise security platform is a basket of information security solutions for sensitive data privacy and integrity protection, in transit as well as at rest.
Spitfire StoreSafe enterprise storage encryption server secures confidential persistent data on physical storage subsystems including direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN), while providing a virtualized view of the encrypted replica as if they were in plain, achieving transparent deployment and on-the-fly wire-speed encryption. Spitfire StoreSafe recently achieved gigabit encryption speed by protecting SAN data using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256-bit cipher on AMD's Opteron dual-core processors.
The platform is built-in with numerous international standard ciphers, including FIPS-197 AES 128, 192 and 256-bit, FIPS-46-3 3DES and DES, CAST5 and CAST6, IDEA, RC2, RC4, RC5 and RC6, Blowfish and Twofish, Serpent and Skipjack, as well as RSA. The extension of Camellia cipher support of Spitfire is aimed at customers in Japan, Korea and the European Union (EU), who are expected to be early adoptors of Camellia.
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Mitsubishi) jointly developed the 128-bit block cipher algorithm "Camellia" in 2000. On this occasion, as the first Japanese encryption algorithm, Camellia was adopted as a new standard encryption algorithm in three major Internet secure protocols, SSL/TLS, S/MIME, and XML. Furthermore, the deliberations by the IETF have approved addition of Camellia into IPsec protocol, and Camellia will be adopted this fall.
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info.isl.ntt.co.jp/crypt/camellia/index.html
bloombase.com/products
Taken from Information Security Bulletin.