Enea OSE Systems integrates Interpeak's IPSec with OSE INET

<%=company1%> has announced the integration of Interpeak's IP security product, IPSec, with the OSE Internet protocol, OSE INET. Available immediately, IPSec for OSE enables communication and telecom design engineers and application developers to easily include previously unavailable security functions into their embedded applications with no modifications to existing applications and protocols.

OSE INET offers a comprehensive set of protocols with numerous options for design engineers seeking high performance and versatility for applications requiring a TCP/IP network connection. With Interpeak's IPSec, a fully integrated security protocol, OSE INET now provides data confidentiality, connectionless data integrity authentication, data origin authentication, and anti-replay protection. Such services are particularly useful to Enea OSE Systems' customers in the telecom and datacom industries, where the number of embedded systems that are managed through Internet connections is increasing.

The most important benefit of IPSec is that it is applied at the network layer, making it possible to secure applications in a completely transparent manner. Not a single line of code needs to be changed in the applications or high layer protocols in order to add security services. Interpeak's IPSec for OSE complies with all the mandatory standards from the IETF IPsec Workgroup. IPSec for OSE can be used to create encrypted tunnels, so called VPNs (Virtual Private Networks), or create encryption and authentication between computers.

IPSec for OSE is a standalone BITS (Bump in the Stack) implementation, inserted between the network and the data link layer in order to transparently secure the OSE TCP/IP stack, INET. A set of powerful and flexible shell commands are included which are used to configure the system security and the target security policy. The product also includes the PFKEYv2 interface as well as an interface to support the IPSec monitor MIB to use with SNMP. Because IPSec is already integrated with the OSE RTOS, users can secure their systems with minimum time to market.

Edited by Bruce A. Bennett
Managing Editor, Embedded Technology.com