Crypto - Ruggedised Information Security Systems

Crypto is specialised in designing and manufacturing information security solutions within the aerospace industry. These include:

• The Crypto field terminal
• MultiCom radio encryption
• Multilink bulk encryption
• Ethernet encryption with 1Gb/s or 10Gb/s full duplex speed

Every individual user of information and communication technology has specific requirements as regards security and technology. For more than 55 years Crypto, a legally and economically independent company, has designed and manufactured security systems in over 130 countries, always with an eye to forging long-term partnerships.

CRYPTOGRAPHIC ALGORITHMS

There is probably no user scenario that cannot be addressed by a solution from Crypto. Our cryptographic algorithms comply with the toughest security requirements: each customer receives its own algorithm, complete with far-ranging capabilities for modification and input.

Crypto designs its hardware to provide effective protection against attempts at physical tampering. Strict standards of design and material selection prevent the compromising loss of secret information. Crypto runs extensive checks on its own equipment to ensure immunity to radiated frequency and prevention of radiated emissions. Ease of use and reliable management are fundamental to secure operations.

Services at Crypto are wide-ranging and comprehensive, extending far beyond customer service, hotlines and repairs to consulting for analyses and plans; project services for customised design; engineering; turnkey systems; and much more. Security has to be a long-time value. That is why service, training and maintenance are integral parts of the security plan to ensure optimum lifecycle management.

Thanks to general training and training on products and maintenance, Crypto's customers are armed with the expertise they need to control their systems autonomously. Crypto has run its own training centre in Switzerland for many years.

CRYPTO FIELD TERMINAL

The Crypto field terminal is designed to provide local security and secure communication via telephone or HF / VHF / UHF radio at tactical and strategic level. The unit offers secure message handling and gives full protection against all kinds of electronic attacks, including hackers, viruses, etc.

It is an all-in-one messaging system with integrated application, communication and encryption, combined in one single mobile and robust hardware module and therefore unique in the world.

MULTICOM RADIO ENCRYPTION

Today, radio communications take place over an extremely wide frequency range and in many operating modes (including voice, data and messaging). This means that the encryption of radio communications demands expertise in quite specific applications. If you work with several applications, it would be very costly to have to buy a specifically adapted encryption platform for each network.

Crypto offers a universal solution which provides compatibility and simplifies operation. The flexible and universal MultiCom radio encryption unit can be used for virtually all frequency ranges, operating modes and services.

SECURITY MANAGEMENT

Security management is a crucial aspect in information security systems: it has to manage cryptographic parameters in a simple and efficient way. All management operations need to be performed with the same high level of security as communications.

Crypto perfectly meets these requirements with its computer-based security management centres. The SMC-1100 security management centre is used for broadband, frame relay, IP VPN, and MultiCom radio solutions. The SNMC-7000 security and network management centre handles microwave and line-of-sight applications.

ETHERNET ENCRYPTION

Fibre-optic communication with powerful switches and routers offer enormous bandwidths. A mix of applications and services might share one optical fibre based on Ethernet technology. Assuring the security of this key technology by cryptographic means protects the complete set.

Crypto offers high-performance Ethernet encryption solutions designed for maximum availability and direct unimpaired integration into your fibre-optic backbone infrastructure. Outstanding solutions are available for both 1Gb/s and 10Gb/s with full duplex speed.

All applications and services based on the Ethernet protocol are transmitted in a secure, transparent manner. You achieve secure high-performance connections in LAN, MAN, WAN and SAN network environments and still benefit from 100% performance.