Sun makes available their Encryption Key Software for free

Sun makes available their Encryption Key Software for free

Sun Microsystems has announced that they are now offering their encryption key management software interface for free.

The company said that users with devices capable of encrypting data would be able to interoperate with a Sun key management system freely.

Nigel Dessau, Sun’s SVP for storage marketing and business ops wrote in a blog post on this development: “We believe in 3 years you will not be able to buy a storage device without encryption in it (whether you turn it on or not); When you have encryption you might as well turn it on (when you left the house this morning did you lock all the door and windows or just the ones the bad people can see?). There will not be one key management solution. It’s a heterogeneous world and that means multiple key management solutions.”

Dessau added: “So– here is my offer. If you have a solution that needs a key management solution, you can have ours for free! Yes, we are willing to give our KMS away to partners who want to think about customers and not ‘lock-ins’. We want to share and swap APIs so we can share and swap keys.”