WEBSITE PROFESSIONAL TO OFFER CRYPTOGRAPHIC SECURITY

O'Reilly & Associates' Server for Windows Provides SSL, S-HTTP Features

Sebastopol, CA,--WebSite Professional, a new product from O'Reilly &
Associates, will provide a complete web server security solution that
includes digital signatures and privacy for the exchange of payment
information, personal identification, and intellectual property.

WebSite Professional, to be released this winter, supports the two major
Web cryptographic security systems, Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(S-HTTP) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). WebSite's implementation of SSL
contains a cryptographically strong random number source, so it does not
have the recently reported weakness of the Netscape Commerce Server. "I
paid close attention to WebSite's random number source from the
beginning," said Robert Denny, the developer of the WebSite server. "Its
design has been discussed with expert cryptographers, and the
implementation has been validated."

Denny codeveloped WebSite Pro's cryptographic security features with
Enterprise Integration Technologies (EIT), the inventors of Secure HTTP.
"We've enjoyed applying our Web security expertise to the best-selling Web
server," said Jay Weber, EIT's Director of Web Products, "and making it
easy to administer was a natural extension of our continuing improvements
to the WebView tool." Denny and EIT have worked on WebSite with publisher
O'Reilly & Associates for the past year.

An important component of WebSite's security approach was the use of Terisa
Systems' Secure Web(TM) toolkit as a platform. "Terisa's toolkit was a
solid foundation on which to build WebSite's security," says Weber, "and
the obvious engineering and testing care that went into it makes us
confident in the reliability of our solution."

WebSite Professional will include several other significant features and
upgrades from WebSite 1.0, including WebSite Application Programming
Interface (WSAPI) with enhanced logging, post processing, and other
features; and server-side includes (SSI), which enable a static HTML
document to include a program within it.

The price for WebSite Professional is still to be set. There will be an
upgrade program for registered users of WebSite 1.0 or 1.1. WebSite 1.1
will be released in December, 1995. WebSite Professional will be available
soon after the release of WebSite 1.1.

O'Reilly & Associates
103A Morris St., Sebastopol, CA 95472
707/829-0515, Fax 707/829-0104, http://www.ora.com/
 
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