<A HREF="http://www.ntru.com/pressroom/pressreleases/Whyte_Release.htm">NTRU</A> announced that William Whyte has joined the company as Director of Cryptographic Research and Development. Whyte will join the NTRU research department headed by Jeffrey Hoffstein and Joseph Silverman and will be responsible for extending NTRU into new areas of secure, wireless communications, spearheading NTRU's public key cryptography system (PKCS) design and analysis, and participating in industry workgroups developing standards for efficient, embedded security.