The KIV-7M has been developed to comply with the Cryptographic Modernization Initiative, which was set up by the National Security Agency (NSA) to enable the US government to upgrade the security infrastructure of its communication architectures to meet present and future security needs.
SafeNet, through its subsidiary Mykotronx, said the product has been in development for two years and meets the requirements of the NSA’s Link Encryptor Family Interoperability Specification (LEFIS), which mandates modes of operation to provide interoperability. Internal testing is expected to finish this May when the NSA will complete the security verification process and enable first shipments in the third quarter of 2005.
Jim Summers, president of SafeNet Mykotronx, said: The KIV-7M has all the capability of its predecessors and adds new capabilities which permit traditional secure communications architectures to migrate seamlessly to the Global Information Grid.
The KIV-7M, according to the company, is a multifunction encryptor that allows users to interoperate with legacy devices in a single unit in an effort to reduce user operating costs and save space and weight aboard vehicles, ships and aircraft. It is reprogrammable to accommodate new security features and is network-capable through an optional HAIPE-compliant interface card.
