Written mostly in C, the SDK uses the same libraries and functions as Cylink developers use internally to build its network products. Assembly language for specific processors is a part of the product as well. Currently, PassportGold supports Solaris 2.4, Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, with Windows NT to be available shortly. Cisco Teams with Cylink Cylink's strategy is creating more than a ripple in the network security waters. Cisco is looking to push encryption technology among the network community.
Cisco understands that a standard is only as good as the number of people who are using it.
Mimicking Microsoft's strategy of giving away technology to generate user acceptance, both Cisco and Cylink hope that these giveaways will put standard encryption back on the industry's radar scope. Cisco is offering the Internet Engineering Task Force's working group draft of the Internet Security Associates Key Management Protocol technology to anyone on a royalty-free basis. This protocol will define security and encryption services for use over the Internet. Cisco is developing its own proprietary protocol using Cylink's encryption technology. The protocol will be part of Cisco's routers and firewalls that are shipping now.