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October 20, 1997, Section: News

News

By Larry Lange, Internet Editor

RSA Data Security Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.) announced that it plans to provide the Internet Software Consortium with a free license to use its security engine, which is designed to prevent address-spoofing on the Internet.

The Internet has long been vulnerable to forged domain name information, which can be used by intruders to redirect Web sites and e-mail. By adding RSA digital signatures, authentication about the source of the messages received is provided, along with cryptographically trusted responses from DNS-making address-spoofing difficult.

The Internet Software Consortium is an industry group that provides and maintains the core version of the Domain Name System (DNS), a protocol used in networking products that acts like directory assistance on the Internet by translating host names into IP addresses (www.isc.org)