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The
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
announced four new development products at the ELITEX
(Electronics
& Information Technology Exposition) 2003 Exhibition-cum-Seminar
held during April 28-29, 2003 at India Habitat Centre,
New Delhi under the auspices of the Ministry of Communications
and Information Technology, Govt. of India. The products
were launched by the Hon'ble Minister of Disinvestment
and Communications & Information Technology in the
presence of Dr. R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific
Advisor to Govt. of India and Shri. Rajeeva Ratna Shah,
Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology. The
four products are the first to be launched following
the recent merger of the erstwhile scientific societies
ER&DCI,
CEDTI
(Mohali) and NCST
of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), with
C-DAC. The products being launched are C-Crypto, Nashir,
D-View and the Mobile Digital Library.
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C-DAC's
Crypto (C-Crypto) is a cryptographic
product which supports industry standard
cryptographic algorithms recognized
and approved by cryptographic product
certification agencies such as International
Computer Security Association (ICSA).
It follows international standards
such as Public Key Cryptographic Standard
(PKCS), Federal Information Processing
Standards Publication (FIPS) used
in security products supplied by vendor's
abroad. C-Crypto also supports algorithms
from emerging fields of cryptography
such as elliptic curve cryptography.
It
caters not only needs of network security
products but also needs of other areas
such as Information security, Cyber
Security, OS Security, File System
Security, Data Base Security, Web
Security, Language Level security,
Application level security, Wireless
Security and Communications Security
etc.
It
provides the necessory cryptographic
components to suite ones application.
With the support of widest range of
data encryption and signing algorithms
available today, the easy-to-use API
interface with strong crypto engine
in C-Crypto allows the user to integrate
state-of-the-art privacy, authentication,
Integrity and non-repudiation into
virtually any application. The product
offers multiplatform support such
as Linux and indows.The product is
also of special relevance to OEMs
as it can be integrated into their
products and solutions.
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here for more information >>
Download
C-Crypto Brochure (pdf
document. Size: 923Kb)
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C-DAC's
Nashir - a word processing and
publishing software for Urdu, Sindhi
and Kashmiri caters to the scripts
written from right to left, and is
packed with features like Urdu spell
checker, Hindi-Urdu transliteration,
table and column layouts, support
for Nastaliq and Naskh scripts with
calligraphic fonts, keyboard shortcuts,
search and replace, text formatting
tools and support for UNICODE. Nashir's
versatility lies in the fact that
it allows use of multiple languages
simultaneously, that is one can use
Urdu, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Arabic and
English text, all in one text frame.
It also supports object linking and
embedding (OLE).
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here for more information >>
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Another
product being launched at ELITEX is
the D-View, a digital set top
box developed indigenously at C-DAC.
With the Conditional Access System
(CAS) becoming mandatory at the four
metros of the country from 14th July
onwards, it couldn't have come at
a better time. The D-View enables
viewers to access a wide range of
services from Analog and Digital Television,
Internet, Video on Demand and VOIP
by decoding the free to air as well
as scrambled signals from the three
modes of transmission, viz. terrestrial,
satellite and cable.
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To
enable students and other beneficiaries
across a large geographic region to
have access to books of their interest,
C-DAC is also launching a Mobile
Digital Library. The library is
equipped with a V-SAT and a PC desktop,
with searching and indexing capability
and a printing facility. The mobile
library is connected to a digital
library server at the C-DAC facility
at Noida, which in turn allows users
access to the web, and also connectivity
to other digital libraries.
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here for more information >>
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