The iKey 2000 supports and integrates with enterprise, business-to-business, and business-to-consumer applications built on all major PKI systems. This includes Microsoft (Internet Explorer and Outlook), Netscape, Entrust, Baltimore, Xcert, Verisign, CyberTrust, Checkpoint, Aventail, KyperPASS, and others. The second member in a family of highly-secure token devices pioneered by Rainbow, the iKey 2000 was designed to protect your public key infrastructure (PKI) digital identity. The iKey 2000 can generate and store public key pairs in hardware, store digital certificates in hardware, and perform digital signatures in hardware. The iKey 2000 is a true PKI hardware token. It never exposes your PKI private key to the client computer.

The iKey 2000 delivers powerful public-key infrastructure (PKI) security and data encryption directly inside the token, providing an optimal secure user authentication solution. iKey 2000 provides end-user software for complete "plug-and-play" security capabilities for most major PKI environments. iKey 2000 includes a full selection of cryptographic libraries for Netscape and Internet Explorer browser applications, as well as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, and Netscape Communicator e-mail clients. The iKey 2000 plugs into any standard USB port making it a smart card and reader encompassed in a USB form factor.

End users and help desk managers everywhere are fed up with passwords. It is widely reported that users simply cannot remember more passwords, let alone use good practices in selecting, storing and changing them. For these reasons, passwords no longer achieve security objectives. The iKey can replace any password, solving both problems. People are less likely to lose a key than forget a password. Some people have turned to password generators to solve the password problem. iKeys provide greater security than traditional password generators, are more portable, less expensive, and require no batteries. Most importantly, an iKey is simply inserted into a USB port to activate an application program; no complex codes need be read or entered. Further, one iKey can be used for several applications. The iKey provides a simpler way to administer user privileges than passwords or software-only certificates. It takes only seconds for an administrator to program a key, requiring no end-user action. Lost keys can be deactivated and replaced.