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ATLANTA, May 3, 2004 - MISSION Communications today released
128-bit AES encryption throughout its system. Businesses
that conduct financial transactions, medical data transfers,
remote surveillance, safety, security and homeland defense
demand the highest levels of security to protect the private
data sent over their wireless networks. AES is a special
128-bit encryption – more secure than filtering, Wired
Equivalent Protocol (WEP), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and
Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Triple Data Encryption
Standard (3DES).
AES is the Advanced Encryption Standard that was approved by
the US Commerce Department as an official Government
standard, effective May 26, 2002, to replace DES, the
original Data Encryption Standard. In the late 90’s, a
machine was built that could decipher (recover) a DES
encrypted key in a few hours. 128-bit AES has so many more
encrypted values that if a machine was built that could
recover a DES key in one second (vs the 3 hours mentioned
above), then it would take that machine approximately 149
trillion years to crack a 128-bit AES key.
“MISSION has taken a very proactive stance on the issues of
security for its customers using authenticated/encrypted air
links with dynamic session key assignments, proprietary
communication protocols and AES techniques,” said Dave
Beringer, Chief Technical Officer. “Having AES implemented
end-to-end in our system brings it into compliance with
standards for wireless communications set by Homeland
Security and AWWA.” \
Since 1999, MISSION's core competencies have been in
national public wireless data networks, Internet
technologies, databases, graphical user interfaces and
computer telephony. MISSION specializes in combining these
technologies into “packaged SCADA” systems primarily for the
water and wastewater industries. Many of MISSION's features
are so advanced, or unique, they have patents or are patent
pending. For more information on MISSION Communications
visit the web site at: www.123mc.com.
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