Fr ontier Toolkit Secures Messaging Products

rontier Technologies Corp. yesterday released a software toolkit that lets IS organizations and developers retrofit existing messaging platforms with standards/based security.

Frontier, in Mequon, Wisc., introduced e/Lock Secure Messaging Toolkit (SMT), a product that lets developers add security measures such as encryption to any kind of messaging application. Those applications include E-mail clients and server gateways, electronic data interchange, and content delivery systems. "Eventually, you're going to see secure mail on everyone's desktop," says Ray Langford, Frontier's director of research and development. "Every place today that [has] messaging [will have] secure messaging."

The tool supports Windows 95 and Windows NT-based security protocols, such as S/MIME, PGP/MIME, and MSP, as well as security technologies such as Microsoft's CryptoAPI. The toolkit is modular in order to support future security protocols as they become adopted.

E-Lock SMT, which ships at the end of September, will be free to individual developers; site-licensing for IS organizations is available.

-- Jeff Sweat

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