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This is a copy of the C2Net Press Release from 07 Oct 1996
Oakland, CA - C2Net and Caldera, Inc. today announced the
release of Stronghold: Apache-SSL for the US, bundled with the Caldera
Solutions CD. Stronghold is a webserver based on the popular Apache
server, which has the highest marketshare of all webservers on the
Internet according to the Netcraft server survey at http://www.netcraft.com/survey/.
Stronghold's marketshare has more than doubled every month since its
release in January of this year.
"[The competition]'s secure servers just didn't work the way we wanted
them to; the interface was clunky and required firewall adjustments to
run, the access control didn't work well for us, and it was just too
black-boxey for us," commented Dan Kearns, of the Motorola ISG
Internet Business Group. "We like the lean/mean-ness of Apache in
general, and the actual useful development that goes on. We look
forward to generating client certificates for our channel partners
using the bundled internal certificate authority tools."
As the only widely-used encrypting webserver that supports Linux,
Stronghold integrates seamlessly with Caldera's Network
Desktop. "Stronghold and Caldera Network Desktop are a perfect
combination for building web-based applications in your company," said
Sameer Parekh, President of C2Net
"Stronghold is the first widely used web server that can authenticate
clients on the basis of their digital certificates," said Dr. Andrew
Csinger, President of Xcert Software, Inc. "Stronghold is a natural
server platform for Xcert's Sentry suite of security enhancement
products. The combination of Stronghold's uncompromising security
profile and Xcert's flexible certificate management and secure
database technology represents great value and convenience for
Internet users."
Xcert Software, Inc. is the premier provider of security enhancement
software for safe and secure commercial Internet applications.
Xcert's Sentry product line is the first cross-platform,
server-independent public key infrastructure implementation. A live
demonstration using the Stronghold webserver has been available on the
company's website since April 1996 (http://www.xcert.com/).
Because it is based on Apache, Stronghold can be used with the
innummerable third party CGI and Apache API applications which have
been developed for Apache, including perl & python integration,
database connectivity, and Kerberos support. "Direct support within
the server for scripting languages can produce an excellent
performance improvement over standard CGI methods," said Sameer
Parekh, President of Community ConneXion, Inc.
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).
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