Senetas CEO, John DuBois comments on an article published on January 15, 2009, in ITNews (www.itnews.com.au) under the heading “New encryption technology aims to beat terrorists and organised crime”.

EADS Defence and Security, which markets a High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor (HAIPE) – a restricted version of the industry standard IPSec used to encrypt information at layer 3 - was reported to have a product that would “speed up communication across the Internet.”

Senetas CEO, John DuBois, said: “In fact technology has been available from Senetas Corporation for a number of years capable of providing full line rate encryption across public networks at speeds up to 10Gbps. The IPSec standard (on which HAIPE is based), has a detrimental impact on network performance due to the inherent expansion of packets when encryption is applied. The effect of this is to both reduce network bandwidth and increase packet loss due to fragmentation.”

16 December 2008

Physicists in Switzerland led by Nicolas Gisin of the University of Geneva reported last week in Nature that they have made a solid-state device capable of storing photons for as long as 1 microsecond.
The invention will aid in the development of light-based quantum-cryptography networks, which are theoretically impervious to hacking but are currently limited in range to a few dozen kilometers, primarily because of a lack of a suitable way to store the quantum state of photons.

Senetas Corporation Limited (ASX:SEN), the world’s leading developer and supplier of high speed network encryption hardware, today announced that it had signed an agreement with Fujitsu, to resell Senetas CypherNet encryption products in most of the world’s major markets.

The agreement was signed by Senetas CEO, John DuBois with Fujitsu New Zealand Limited General Manager Sales and Service Delivery, Jo Healey, this week.

Mr DuBois welcomed the agreement saying Fujitsu was one of the world’s major technology companies “We believe this is a great opportunity for Senetas to broaden its reach and clearly Fujitsu recognizes the potential opportunity to market a world-leading high speed network encryption platform alongside its leading IT and communications solutions,” Mr DuBois said.

We look forward to working with Senetas and are excited to be taking their advanced encryption technology to the market through our nationwide sales and support network” Added Healey.

Pursuant to the agreement Fujitsu New Zealand Ltd has the opportunity in the future to sell the Senetas CypherNet encryption products as part of a wider security solution in markets outside of New Zealand including Australia, Asia, North America and Europe.

Pictured: Fujitsu NZ GM, Jo Healey, with Senetas GM, Horst Marcinsky

The Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) has completed a rigorous security evaluation of Senetas’ CypherNet® a high-speed, standards based multi-protocol encryptor specifically designed to secure voice, data and video information.

“DSD and Senetas have worked collaboratively throughout the entire evaluation period to ensure that the CypherNet® family of products meet the strict information security needs of government,” said the Director of DSD, Mr Ian McKenzie.