[1361] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: COMMUNITY CONNEXION ANNOUNCES APACHE-SSL COMMERCE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Redfield)
Sun Dec 31 03:01:33 1995
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 21:28:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Keith Redfield <redfield@cisco.com>
To: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199512262112.NAA00681@infinity.c2.org>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Look for NCSA to sue them any day now...
Keith Redfield
Manager, Advanced Customer Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc.
On Tue, 26 Dec 1995, sameer wrote:
> For Immediate Release
> Contact: Sameer Parekh 510-601-9777
>
> COMMUNITY CONNEXION ANNOUNCES APACHE-SSL COMMERCE
>
> Community ConneXion today announced Apache-SSL Commerce, a commercial
> version of the Apache webserver with support for Netscape
> Communication Corporation's Secure Sockets Layer, a standard for
> encrypted communications over the Internet.
>
> Community ConneXion's Apache-SSL package includes Apache v1.0.0,
> extensions to Apache which enable the SSL protocol, additional
> customizations to the webserver, and tools to aid in server and SSL
> maintainence. The server supports virtual hosts and an extensible API
> to allow for easy modifications to the behavior of the server. Apache
> is currently the fastest growing HTTP server, looking set to become
> the most used web server on the net in 1996.
>
> Sameer Parekh, President of Community ConneXion, commented on their
> release of the encrypting webserver, "We're very happy to make
> available an affordable SSL server to the Internet community. For
> security to work, it must be ubiquitous, which requires that
> encrypting servers be affordable and widely deployed."
>
> Apache-SSL is available for free to non-commercial users, and the
> commercial use package, Apache-SSL Commerce, is available for
> $495.00. Customers who own versions of other commercial encrypting
> webservers can upgrade to Apache-SSL Commerce for $295.00. In
> addition to the right to use the server in commercial applications,
> the commercial package includes support and free lifetime upgrades
> from Community ConneXion. Apache-SSL Commerce is not available
> outside the United States, but Apache-SSL is available for free, both
> commercially and non-commercially, outside the United States from Ben
> Laurie, of A. L. Digital, Ltd.
>
> The Apache-SSL Commerce webserver is the only commercial encrypting
> webserver with source available. Ian Goldberg, graduate student at
> U.C. Berkeley, well-known for his work on SSL security, commented on
> the importance of available source, "The public release of source,
> especially for security-critical sections of code, is vital for a
> product in which the public must put its trust. It's far better for
> me to be able to check the software that's used, say, for accessing my
> bank account via the Web, for security problems, than for me to be
> forced to trust whatever company put out the product. Companies will
> soon find that releasing more information about the internals of their
> products will lead not only to better products, but better
> reputations, as well."
>
> Portions developed by the Apache Group, taken with permission from the
> Apache Server http://www.apache.org/. This product includes software
> developed by Ben Laurie for use in the Apache-SSL HTTP server project.
> This product includes software developed by Eric Young
> (eay@mincom.oz.au).
>
> Information on Apache-SSL is available at
> http://www.c2.org/apachessl/. Questions and inquiries regarding the
> server should be sent to apachessl@c2.org.
>
> Community ConneXion, founded in June of 1994, is the leading provider
> of privacy on the Internet. They provide anonymous and pseudonymous
> internet access and web pages in addition to powerful web service,
> virtual hosts, and web design consultation. Information is available
> from their web pages at http://www.c2.org/.
>
