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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-16 OR 15D-16 OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of June 1, 2000
CERTICOM CORP.
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(Translation of Registrant's Name Into English)
5520 Explorer Drive, Mississauga, Ontario L4W 5L1 Canada
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(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual
reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.)
Form 20-F Form 40-F X
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(Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the
information contained in this form is also thereby furnishing the information to
the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934.)
Yes No X
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(If "Yes" is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the
registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): .)
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
CERTICOM CORP.
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(Registrant)
Date: June 1, 2000 By: /s/ Richard D. Brounstein
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Name: Richard D. Brounstein
Title: Chief Financial Officer
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[LOGO CANADA NEWSWIRE]
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News release via Canada NewsWire, Toronto 416-863-9350
[CERTICOM LOGO]
Attention Business Editors:
AGILENT FIREHUNTER SELECTS CERTICOM'S SSL PLUS AS THE STANDARD SSL
IMPLEMENTATION FOR E-COMMERCE SERVICE ASSURANCE
HAYWARD, CA, June 1 /CNW/ - Certicom (Nasdaq: CERT and TSE: CIC), a
leading provider of m-commerce security, today announced a license agreement
with Agilent Technologies Firehunter (NYSE: A) to integrate Certicom's market
leading SSL Plus(TM) technology with Firehunter's suite of products, a premier
family of Internet service-assurance solutions for e-business.
The SSL 3.0 protocol is the industry standard for securing
electronic data, and SSL Plus is the leading commercial SSL implementation in
the marketplace, providing authentication, confidentiality, and message
integrity as part of any networked application. With the integration of SSL Plus
into Firehunter, customers can more accurately measure and maintain the
quality-of-service in their real-world secured environments.
"The integration of Firehunter and Certicom's innovative
technologies can significantly enhance the operation of e-commerce sites by
ensuring that secure web services run smoothly," said Bruce Fischer, director of
product development, Firehunter business. "We selected Certicom's SSL Plus
because it is the most effective and widely deployed technology of its kind, and
complements Firehunter's ability to continuously monitor performance of the
entire infrastructure that supports e-commerce. Both ISP hosts of e-commerce
sites and e-commerce vendors will benefit from this agreement between two market
leaders."
Firehunter, the industry's popular Internet Service Assurance
solution for e-business, provides service-level monitoring, reporting and
automated SLA management resulting in immediate revenue gains for Service
Providers around the world. Firehunter/e-Commerce provides comprehensive
performance measurements that allow ISPs to make verifiable business-oriented
service level assurance (SLA) agreements with e-commerce vendors. The software
can track real-time SLA compliance, identify potential problems anywhere within
the infrastructure, alert the appropriate people and systems and trigger other
applications to correct problems. Certicom's SSL technology offers
Firehunter/e-Commerce users increased ability to accurately assess their
e-business performance.
Certicom's SSL Plus enables non-crypto engineers to add fully secure
SSL functionality rapidly and with confidence to their applications or embedded
systems. SSL Plus can be used to secure a wide range of network application from
Web browsers to embedded applications.
"Many of today's enterprise and electronic commerce applications
rely on
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Certicom's SSL technology as the foundation for security," said Rick
Dalmazzi, president of Certicom. "Agilent Firehunter products will now be able
to offer their customers the ability to provide service assurance at their most
important secure sites."
About SSL Plus
SSL Plus is the most widely deployed and trusted commercial toolkit
available for SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), the dominant security protocol used in
the majority of secure networked applications and products worldwide. The SSL
Plus toolkit is used by leading companies such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems,
Lotus and Intuit to build security into a wide range of applications and
products for the Internet, intranets, and corporate networks, from traditional
Web browsers and servers to home banking products, handheld devices, and legacy
mainframes.
About Firehunter
The Firehunter family of service-assurance solutions for e-business
provides vital functionality for proactively managing the performance and
availability of business-critical services, including network performance
management, Web hosting and e-Commerce. Firehunter supports service-level
monitoring and reporting in addition to SLA management, resulting in assured,
verified service levels for optimal quality of service and customer
satisfaction. These powerful capabilities enable service providers to
troubleshoot rapidly, improve operational efficiency and realize immediate
revenue gains.
Information on Firehunter can be found at www.firehunter.com
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc (NYSE:A) is a diversified technology
company, resulting from Hewlett-Packard Company's plan to strategically realign
itself into two fully independent companies. With approximately 43,000 employees
serving customers in more than 120 countries, Agilent Technologies is a global
leader in designing and manufacturing test, measurement and monitoring
instruments, systems and solutions, and semiconductor and optical components.
The company serves markets that include communications, electronics, life
sciences and healthcare. In fiscal year 1999, the businesses comprising Agilent,
then a subsidiary of HP, had net revenue of more than $8.3 billion.
Information about Agilent Technologies, Inc can be found on the Web
at www.agilent.com.
About Certicom
Certicom is an encryption technology company specializing in
security solutions for mobile computing and wireless data markets, including
m-commerce. Major computing and communications companies such as Palm Inc.,
BellSouth Wireless Data, Motorola, Pitney Bowes, and QUALCOMM incorporate
Certicom's technology into electronic commerce software, wireless messaging
applications, and smart cards. Certicom is a leading source for a complete range
of OEM security products and services, including cryptographic toolkits, custom
implementations, and security integration services and consulting. Certicom's
worldwide sales and marketing operations are based in Hayward, California, with
cryptographic research and product development in Toronto, Canada. For more
information, visit Certicom's Web site at http://www.certicom.com.
Certicom and SSL Plus are registered trademarks of Certicom Corp.
All other companies and products listed herein are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective holders.
Except for historical information contained herein, this press
release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and
uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially. Factors that might cause a
difference include, but are not limited to, those relating to the acceptance of
mobile and wireless devices and the continued growth of e-commerce and
m-commerce (mobile e-commerce), the increase of the demand for mutual
authentication in m-commerce transactions, the acceptance of Elliptic Curve
Cryptography (ECC)
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technology as an industry standard, the market acceptance of our principal
products and sales of our customer's products, the impact of competitive
products and technologies, the possibility of our products infringing patents
and other intellectual property of third parties, and costs of product
development. Certicom will not update these forward-looking statements to
reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. More detailed information
about potential factors that could affect Certicom's financial results is
included in the documents Certicom files from time to time with the Securities
and Exchange Commission and Canadian securities regulatory authorities including
Certicom's Registration Statement on Form F-10.
For further information: for Certicom: Lorraine Kauffman, Public
Relations, Certicom Corp., (510) 780-5417, [email protected]; for
Agilent Technologies: Debbie Madden, Agilent Technologies, Inc.,
(970) 288-3303, [email protected]; Jessica Johannes, Lutchansky
Communications for Certicom, (408) 938-9050 x 15, jessica(at)lcomm.com
