Compaq, the world’s largest PC manufacturer, will install the PrivaSUITE message encryption software produced by Israel's Aliroo, in its professional mini-computers series, operating in Windows CE. This was reported yesterday by Compaq and Aliroo, at the CardTech SecuriTech exhibition currently underway in Chicago.
The mini-computers are meant for the use of roving employees in large organisations. Compaq intends to market them as part of a comprehensive organisational solution, which also includes communications encryption at the desk-top computer and organisational server level.
Aliroo general manager Meir Zorea said the computers had not yet been named, or even priced, but they would be the first mini-computers standardly fitted with an encryption system and a smart card reader.
The deal was actually a three way one between Compaq, Shlomberger and Aliroo. Shlomberger, one of the w world’s largest manufacturers of smart card technologies, will supply the car reading systems, complete with a card security system of Aliroo manufacture. At the same time, Aliroo will supply encryption software for the computers themselves.
Zorea estimated that this one of the young Israeli company’s most important strategic deals. He said negotiations had already commenced with Compaq’s desk top computer and organisational servers divisions managers, with a view to fitting those products with the encryption software.
PrivaSUITE is a client software operating vis-a-vis server software, and enabling e-mail (or selected portions of it), to be encrypted and sent securely via the Internet or wireless communication. "We are the first in the world to offer encryption capability on Window CE operating system", Zorea told "Globes". The companies refused to divulge details on the volume of the deal, but Aliroo will reportedly receive royalties for every computer sold by Compaq
Published by Israel's Business Arena May 13, 1999