Scytale

Scytale — the software developer founded in 2017 open source which is intended for ensuring authentication. Technologies implement process at which two applications mutually calibrate each other before data transmission. Just as the user provides the data at authorization on the website, and the application with which Scytale software works provides the cryptographic accounting information to prove that it is legitimate.

Software of Scytale, including the solutions SPIFFE and SPIRE, ensures safety on the Zero Trust model assuming total absence of trust to someone — even to users in perimeter. Within such concept each user or the device should confirm the data every time when they request access to any resource in or outside network.

History

2020: HPE purchased Scytale

At the beginning February, 2020 HPE announced Scytale purchase. The financial component of the agreement of the company did not begin to be opened.

Scytale has several products intended for corporate clients, however, most likely, HPE are interesting first of all personnel resources of a startup.

HPE announced Scytale purchase

We see many opportunities for use of SPIFFE and SPIRE in a portfolio of HPE and we consider that the modern technology of cryptographic identification will play a crucial role in projects of digital transformation, start of cloud environments and cloud migration in enterprise scales. Use of specialists of Scytale, their experience and force of their community, undoubtedly, will accelerate our progress in achievement of these purposes — the representative of HPE Dave Husak wrote in the blog.

The CEO of Scytale Sunil James said that his command will continue to make a contribution to development of SPIFFE and SPIRE.^[1]

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