Information Security News: Secure open source Web server debuts at Linux expo

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/22/ns-15758.html

By Will Knight
Mon, 05 Jun 2000 10:34:35 GMT

The Stronghold Secure Web server proves that access to source code
need not affect security

Computer security firm C2Net announced the release of the new open
source Stronghold Secure Web server at the European Linux Expo in
London, Friday.

The product from this US-based company is based on the open source
Apache Web server and features 128-bit encryption.

Open Source software enabling secure Web transactions contradicts the
assumption that access to source code weakens security.

According to Web survey source Netcraft, over 60 percent of all sites
on the Internet run Apache.

The product has met with approval from the software development
community.

"I appreciate that Stronghold's SSL/TLS (Secure Socket Layer/Transport
Layer Security) engine is now based on the robust and popular Open
Source software we develop," says Open Source developer Ralf
Engelschall of the OpenSSL project.

"Especially because C2Net always closely cooperated with our projects
and even made parts of the Stronghold 3 technology freely available to
the Open Source community."

Stronghold 3 costs $995 (659) although an evaluation version can be
downloaded from the C2Net web site.


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