RSA is currently used in a wide variety of products, platforms, and industries around the world. It is found in many commercial software products and is planned to be in many more. RSA is built into current operating systems by Microsoft, Apple, Sun, and Novell. In hardware, RSA can be found in secure telephones, on Ethernet network cards, and on smart cards. In addition, RSA is incorporated into all of the major protocols for secure Internet communications, including S/MIME, SSL and S/WAN. It is also used internally in many institutions, including branches of the U.S. government, major corporations, national laboratories, and universities.

Currently, RSA technology is licensed by about 350 companies. The estimated installed base of RSA encryption engines is around 300 million, making it by far the most widely used public-key cryptosystem in the world. This figure is expected to grow rapidly as the Internet and the World Wide Web expand.  For a list of RSA licensees, see http://www.rsa.com/html/licensees.html.

Rich Aliano