WAP Forum Specifies RSA’s RC5 Encryption For Wireless
P. Hayes - May 9, 2000

Event Summary

BEDFORD, Mass., On April 20 - RSA Security Inc. (NASDAQ:RSAS) announced that the WAP Forum has specified RSA Security's RC5Ö encryption algorithm for its WTLS (Wireless Transport Level Security) specification. At the April WAP Forum Developer's Symposium in Miami, Florida, the committee voted to include RSA Security's RC5 algorithm as an encryption technology for use in wireless clients and servers. RSA Security's RC5 algorithm is the only data encryption algorithm that is specified as 'should be supported by all WTLS clients and servers' by the WAP Forum for WTLS environments...