Tumbleweed Communications PKI system earns EAL 3 certification
Common Criteria certification shines light on Tumbleweed Validation Authority system; product is in wide use across government, financial industry
The last few months have been good for Tumbleweed Comunications (NASDAQ: TMWD), a Redwood City, California-based provider of e-mail security, file transfer security, and identity validation systems. In March, as we reported then, the company’s proprietary Tumbleweed Validation Authority (TVA) earned the imprimatur of the Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority’s Path Discovery and Validation working group. The same product suite, the comapny announced yesterday, has now achieved Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 3 certification, the strongest protection profile for public key infrastructure (PKI) products. The certification is awarded by The National Information Assurance Partnership, the Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme, and the Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement.
TVA, used by the Department of Defense, DHS, and many other government agencies as well as private financial concerns, validates the status of digital certificates in real time, ensuring that revoked credentials cannot be used.
-read more in this company press release; read more about Common Criteria here
