Hillstone Software

13 March 2011

For immediate release

Contact: Alex Maekivi, Tel: +353 1 626 8229; +353 87 988 1568
Email: info@hillstone-software.com

Hillstone Software announces the release of the next version 1.3 of "HsCipherSDK" - an Encryption Library providing an API to a suite of symmetric key cryptographic algorithms and one way hash digital signature algorithms.

The new version adds support for Whirlpool secure hashing algorithm standardized in ISO/IEC 10118-3.

Whirlpool is a hash designed after the Square block cipher. Whirlpool is a Miyaguchi-Preneel construction based on a substantially modified Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). It takes a message of any length less than 2256 bits and returns a 512-bit message digest.

The library allows software engineers and system integrators to reduce the time to market of the projects related to the security enabled features: encryption and digital signing / authentication.

Other major algorithms apart from Whirlpool inlcude AES, DES, ARC4, CAST128, Blowfish, Twofish, MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256.

Additional information about the product is available from product web site:
http://www.hillstone-software.com/hs_cipher_sdk_details.htm

Hillstone Software is a software company based in Dublin, Ireland. Hillstone software specializes in provision of software components and services to IT companies worldwide.

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