VADER Body Worn DVR incorporates built in encryption, Press Release - H264 Ltd. - 4th February 2008 Options

[Doktor Jon]

The latest information update received relating to the VADER 279 Body Worn Digital Video Recorder, currently in development ...

- Press Release -

THE VADER 279 BODY-WORN RECORDER NOW HAS 128 bit AES ENCRYPTION

The encryption codec is already fitted inside the VADER 279 Body-Worn recorder and is available for use when selected by the user. Switching encryption IN or OUT is a function of a software command via the Ethernet connector.

AES stands for Advanced Encryption Standard. AES is a symmetric key encryption technique which has replaced the commonly used Data Encryption Standard (DES).

It was the result of a worldwide call for submissions of encryption algorithms issued by the US Government's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1997 and completed in 2000.

The winning algorithm, Rijndael, was developed by two Belgian cryptologists, Vincent Rijmen and Joan Daemen.

AES provides strong encryption and has been selected by NIST as a Federal Information Processing Standard in November 2001 (FIPS-197), and in June 2003 the U.S. Government (NSA) announced that AES is secure enough to protect classified information up to the TOP SECRET level, which is the highest security level and defined as information which would cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national security if disclosed to the public.

The AES algorithm uses one of three cipher key strengths: a 128-, 192-, or 256-bit encryption key (password). Each encryption key size causes the algorithm to behave slightly differently, so the increasing key sizes not only offer a larger number of bits with which you can scramble the data, but also increase the complexity of the cipher algorithm.

For further information contact H.264 Limited - http://www.h264ltd.com

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