Whitewood and wolfSSL Partner to Integrate netRandom™ as Part of the wolfSSL Embedded Security Systems

Whitewood, which develops crypto-security solutions, and wolfSSL, a leading provider of security and connectivity technologies for the embedded, machine-to-machine (M2M), and Internet of Things (IoT) markets, are pleased to announce a technology and co-marketing partnership. With this partnership, wolfSSL will enable its customers to utilize Whitewood’s netRandom system to supply random numbers at scale to devices and distributed applications that incorporate wolfSSL’s embedded security system toolkits.

As demand accelerates for enhanced security for networked applications, product vendors and system operators are re-examining how they develop and deploy secure crypto capabilities. These applications span a huge range of hardware platforms and software environments, from smart devices in cars to routers, printers, credit-card scanners, and IP and mobile phones. The sheer diversity and scale of these deployments brings the issue of random generation, the very foundation of every crypto-security, to the forefront.

Whitewood’s netRandom product offers access to network-delivered true random numbers, helping to eliminate traditional dependencies on individual devices and host machines to capture entropy from their local environments and generate their own random numbers. By incorporating the netRandom Client into the wolfSSL toolkits, applications and devices have the enhanced ability to request true random numbers and seed values from a shared and high-quality entropy source, the netRandom Server.

"We live in a world where companies can no longer take random number generation for granted. It’s time for a more professional network-based approach to security, and by partnering with Whitewood, we are delivering that new standard,” said Larry Stefonic, Chief Executive Officer of wolfSSL. "Our clients will now have the choice of relying on local random number generators or supplementing them with high security random seeds from a trusted, shared source. This will be particularly valuable for customers that need to gain security certification for their products, as testing labs are quite rightly placing increasing emphasis on validating entropy sourcing and random number generation.”

In almost all cases today, random number generation is performed by deterministic software processes within the operating system. These otherwise predictable outputs are randomized by capturing apparently random signals or events from the hardware platform or local environment. However, the degree to which these sources of randomness are truly unpredictable and random varies enormously and is notoriously unreliable to measure. This inevitably results in the quality of randomness varying from device to device, leading to inconsistency and doubt, particularly across large-scale deployments.

"In today’s climate of heightened cybersecurity risks, product developers implementing encryption capabilities or other forms of cryptography need to access adequate supplies of true random numbers to ensure that they satisfy stringent security requirements,” said Richard Moulds, Vice President of Strategy for Whitewood. "We have already seen many local configuration issues transition to network-synchronized capabilities, such as ‘time-of-day’ settings, and we expect entropy and random number generation to evolve in a similar way. netRandom helps to make that possible with a simple approach to boosting random number capabilities across a wide variety of platforms and applications, bringing a new level of consistency and assurance.”

Whitewood’s netRandom solution is the only network-based provider of random numbers supported by wolfSSL. The ability to request random seed data over the network can help overcome situations where individual devices lack the power and capability to capture local entropy and therefore generate truly random numbers and cryptographic keys – both essential items in securing IoT applications.

Whitewood’s netRandom system, as well as its flagship Entropy Engine, will be on display at booth 4915 at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco (February 29 - March 4). For more information, visit www.whitewoodencryption.com or email info@whitewoodencryption.com.

wolfSSL will also be presenting its solutions at RSA at booth S2619. For more information, visit www.wolfSSL.com.

About wolfSSL
Founded in 2004, wolfSSL is a dual licensed, open source and commercial company. wolfSSL provides high-end security, while also having a small enough footprint to be perfect for embedded systems. For more information, please visit http://www.wolfSSL.com.

About Whitewood Encryption Systems, Inc.
Whitewood® is addressing one of the most fundamental challenges associated with all modern cryptosystems – random number generation and distribution. Whitewood’s products exploit quantum mechanics to meet demand for high-quality entropy used for random data and key generation at scale. Building upon a base of quantum cryptography capabilities developed over the course of the past two decades at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Whitewood aims to address operational vulnerabilities in encryption and crypto applications across the datacenter, cloud and in mobile and embedded systems. More information on Whitewood can be found at: www.whitewoodencryption.com. The company is a subsidiary of Allied Minds (LSE: ALM).

About Allied Minds
Allied Minds is an innovative U.S. science and technology development and commercialization company. Operating since 2006, Allied Minds forms, funds, manages and builds products and businesses based on innovative technologies developed at leading U.S. universities and federal research institutions. Allied Minds serves as a diversified holding company that supports its businesses and product development with capital, central management and shared services. More information about the Boston-based company can be found at www.alliedminds.com.

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