| Concept Date: |
September, 1997 |
| Completion Date: |
Version 3 work on going |
| Current Status: |
Version 2 in production |
| Lead Contractor: |
Entegrity Solutions |
| Concept: |
Provide non-repudiation of private
communications between AOL and its partners. |
| Deployment Scope: |
All transmissions of on-line orders from
the AOL NOC to its partners. |
| Work Performed: |
Optimization of cryptography algorithms.
After the initial delivery some AOL transmissions were exceeding 2G
bytes. This transmission size was well beyond the initial design
specification.
The client environment was replicated to provide benchmarks of
various algorithms under real life circumstances. Cipher seeding
proved to be one of the bottlenecks resulting in changes to user
tokens.
Benchmarks and optimizations were completed over a six week period. |
| Evaluation: |
Successful for the following key reasons:
· Small number of clients allowed for a number of processes to be
completed manually.
· Clients were willing to give AOL complete control of the PKI.
· Clients only communicate with AOL, not other clients, thus
eliminating the need for revocation and key archival. This
simplified the deployment. |
