OTTAWA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 30, 2001–
Chrysalis Semiconductor Division Outlines Plans for High Performance Security Protocol Processing ICs and Software that Enable High Speed SSL Processing Solutions.
Chrysalis Semiconductor, a division of Chrysalis-ITS(R), a leader in network security processing, intends to eliminate performance bottlenecks associated with cryptographic protocol processing. Current security ICs perform only raw encryption acceleration and fail to properly address the development issues faced by network system architects. Chrysalis-ITS intends to eliminate the pervasive problem of incomplete protocol processing and provide comprehensive software and system integration as part of a total systems solution.
Building on its systems security expertise and leveraging the comprehensive software developed for its flagship Luna(R) 340 semiconductor, Chrysalis Semiconductor will further enhance its software development and system integration environment to enable OEMs to make use of its advanced performance network security ICs, the Luna 500 series, which will be announced later this year.
Luna 500 series of cryptographic processors provide all the symmetric and asymmetric processing for the acceleration of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) session set up and Internet Key Exchange Protocol (IKE) session set up processing. Product plans include three ICs, setting new industry benchmarks, with single chip performance as high as 40,000 SSL session set-ups per second.
“The Luna 500 series will not only deliver the highest performance of any SSL session negotiation IC but Chrysalis Semiconductor will provide the software development and systems integration environment that will enable OEMs to take full advantage of the IC’s performance. This means system architects will finally have all the tools required to build high performance security into their products,” said Stephen Davis, Chief Architect, Chrysalis Semiconductor.
Chrysalis Semiconductor has succeeded in developing products that remove asymmetric cryptography as a system bottleneck in high-end web servers, switches, and other data center appliances. Secure transactions will no longer consume a large portion of network appliance resources. The first two ICs in the Luna 500 series, the Luna 510 and Luna 520 will provide 10,000 and 20,000 SSL session setups per second respectively and will sample to lead customers, early in the fourth quarter of 2001.
The Luna 510 and 520 ICs will sample with an evaluation platform, developed in conjunction with PMC-Sierra’s 64-bit RM7000A microprocessor. The evaluation platform provides system designers with a development and testing environment for the firmware associated with the Luna 510 and Luna 520, a front end processor, a test bed for measuring the performance of the Luna 510 in a high end system running Linux and OpenSSL, and a reference design detailing how the Luna 510 can be integrated with a general purpose CPU.
The Luna 500 series ICs are designed for use in any product implementing security mechanisms where high-speed digital signatures are required. This includes products that implement SSL, IPSec, Secure XML, Time Stamping and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). The chips will be used in network equipment such as load balancers, web switches, IP Service Switches, SSL Gateways, caching appliances, e-commerce servers.
“Processing security protocols is quite complex. Using its security experience, Chrysalis-ITS has developed a set of chips that deliver the security features, such as complete protocol processing, that OEMs need, as well as awesome SSL performance. The company’s emphasis on software as well as hardware will ease the OEM’s design task,” says Linley Gwennap, Principal Analyst of The Linley Group.
SSL can break switching and caching infrastructures if not processed properly. Web switches claiming to support over 2 million web connections per second with over 100 Gigabit of bandwidth, could find the function nullified by the use of SSL, yet security is essential to enable trusted e-commerce. Chrysalis Semiconductor addresses this problem and revolutionizes the processing of SSL by offloading the entire record and session set-up protocol. To achieve this Chrysalis Semiconductor focused on the design and implementation of three crucial elements: high-speed crypto engines, software that integrates these engines into systems to efficiently process security protocols, and an easy to use driver/API environment that is O/S independent. “It is this total solution that appeals to our customers,” notes Mark Taber, Vice President Sales and Marketing, Chrysalis Semiconductor.
About Chrysalis Semiconductor, a Division of Chrysalis-ITS Inc.
The Semiconductor Division of Chrysalis-ITS provides network infrastructure OEMs with IC-based solutions, which allow them to offer security services to their end customers. These solutions are designed to be trusted, easy to integrate, and to process security protocols without impeding system throughput. The solutions consist of ICs, software, and circuit boards. With a “Security Engine” from Chrysalis-ITS, security becomes a routing decision for the system OEM, eliminating the need for network equipment vendors to keep up with the ever changing and complex array of security protocols, algorithms, and standards.
Founded in 1994, Chrysalis-ITS is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with offices in London, UK; Boston MA, and Mountain View, CA. The company website is http://www.chrysalis-its.com/.
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