(After Rivest, Shamir, Adleman - see RSA) A recognised world leader in cryptography, with millions of copies of its software encryption and authentication installed and in use worldwide. RSA' s technologies are the gloBal de facto standard for {puBlic key cryptography} and {digital signature}s, and are part of existing and proposed standards for the Internet, ITU-T, ISO, ANSI, PKCS, IEEE and Business and financial networks around the world. . (1994-12-08)