PKWARE Licenses Technology to Expand SecureZIP Standard
Laptop Battery By WTN News • 01/21/04 Brown Deere, Wis. - PKWARE, a software developer based in Brown Deer, Wisconsin, has announced a set of software licensing initiatives designed to expand the availability of the companys new SecureZIP technology.
Responding to industry feedback PKWARE decided to license its SecureZIP technology to other vendors including WinZip, which will incorporate the technology into an upcoming Beta release of their product.
The incorporation of SecureZIP technology by ZIP vendors such as WinZip, the expanded PKZIP Reader availability, and our implementation of SecureZIP on all major platforms are important elements of our strategy to make enterprise-class data security
easy, said Tim Kennedy, president and chief operating officer of PKWARE.
PKWAREs Reader products, including a recent version that features
SecureZIP decryption, have experienced more than 150 million downloads since inception. The latest version of PKZIP Reader features additional international support through French and German language versions for European SecureZIP customers
With PKWARE's Reader and SecureZIP licensing strategy, PKWARE is breaking down this barrier, enabling SecureZIP to emerge as a de facto standard for exchanging
information securely across various infrastructures and organizations, said Charles Kolodgy, research director at IDC.
PKZIP Reader is freely available from PKWAREs Web site by any recipient of a encrypted ZIP file. Third-party Web sites can now also host a branded PKZIP Reader download button on their site via a new PKZIP Reader Affiliate Program.
According to the indictment, Jones would steal various IBM and Penguin computer servers from Verisign's warehouse in Virginia and sell them to Johnson. Johnson would then sell the servers to several individuals, who would sometimes place them for sale on eBay. As a result of this scheme, the indictment alleges that Jones and Johnson caused Verisign to lose more than $120, 000 worth of computer equipment. In the indictment, Jones and Johnson are charged in three counts with causing the interstate transportation of stolen property, namely IBM 330 and 335 servers, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
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