Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An algorithm used in public key cryptography, commonly used on the Internet in various protocols for secure transmission of data.

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  • initialism Republic of South Africa.
  • initialism cryptography the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman encryption algorithm.
  • initialism Royal Society of Arts.
  • initialism Australia Responsible Service of Alcohol; a qualification and permit for bar staff.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From the initial letters of the surnames of its inventors, Ronald Rivest, (born 1947), American cryptographer, Adi Shamir, (born 1952), Israeli cryptographer, and Leonard Adleman, (born 1945), American computer scientist.]

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  • "RSA is collaborating with VMware to leverage the unprecedented visibility provided by the VMware VMsafe Security APIs to build better than physical security solutions," said Bret Hartman, Chief Technology Officer of RSA®, The Security Division of EMC.

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  • RSA also provides implementation of best-in-class solutions - specifically, the RSA enVision® platform, RSA® Data Loss Prevention Suite and the RSA® FraudAction (SM) Threat Intelligence service - providing core capabilities needed to deliver advanced security operations.

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  • RSA SecurID technology is comprised of both a broad range of hardware and software authenticators that provide end users with a one time password that is designed to change every 60 seconds, as well as its software engine -- RSA® Authentication Manager -- which scales to support millions of users and provides the benefit of technical certification with more than 300 products.

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  • RSA SecurID technology is comprised of both a broad range of hardware and software authenticators that provide end users with a one time password that is designed to change every 60 seconds, as well as its software engine -- RSA® Authentication Manager -- which scales to support millions of users and provides the benefit of technical certification with more than 300 products.

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  • SSH Communications Security Corp. (OMX: SSH1V), a world-leading provider of enterprise security solutions and end-to-end communications security, and the original developer of the Secure Shell protocol, today announced it has joined the RSA Secured® Partner Program and certified interoperability between the SSH Tectia Client / Server and SSH Tectia ConnectSecure ™ from SSH Communications Security and both the RSA® SecurID and RSA® Certificate Manager solutions from RSA, The Security Division of EMC (

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  • While I was in RSA, I had the pleasure of helping guide a former U. S army sniper who had just been released from service.

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  • RSA can also represent a cryptosystem named for three dudes: the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman cryptosystem, a cryptosystem for public-key encryption.

    The RSA conference is currently happening in San Francisco: https://www.rsaconference.com/

    March 1, 2016