SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said its Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm used in its Canopy wireless broadband radios to ensure secure data communication has been certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to meet government Federal Information Processing Standard-197 (FIPS-197).
The radio is the second Motorola product and the 150th product in the world to earn FIPS-197 certification. “Secure communications are a specialized need for many public and private entities, from government agencies to law enforcement to banking,” said Tom Gruba, director of marketing and customer support for Motorola’s Canopy wireless broadband group. “Certification of our AES algorithm provides assurance to those customers that the Canopy solution meets the government’s rigorous standards.”
