FSA Corporation - CipherLink, PowerTelnet, and PowerFTP

CipherLink, PowerTelnet, and PowerFTP

In 1995, the company began to develop network encryption technologies, again in response to a growing number of similar requests from its customers. Early products in this sphere included PowerTelnet which is comparable to today's ssh, and PowerFTP, which provided encrypted file transfer. In February 1996, Freedman realized that this technology could be generalized, resulting in a general-purpose network encryption solution that would encrypt the traffic of any application, without requiring much, if any, modification to that application. Chmilar, Huxley, and Earle Lowe worked tirelessly around the clock to prepare a demonstrable version of this new CipherLink product in time for the Networld+Interop trade show in April, 1996. The product was extremely well received, and became a finalist for the coveted Best Product of Show award at the trade show that year.