SAN JOSE, CA -- INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM - Cloakware Corporation today announced that the AT-SPI Technology Office, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base has selected Cloakware for evaluation as part of its initiative to protect critical DoD applications from unauthorized distribution and exploitation. As part of a licensing deal entered into previously between Cloakware and Intel, the AT-SPI Technology Office evaluation will include both Cloakware and Intel tamper resistant technology. "Application software represents a significant and essential component of the Department of Defense's (DoD) intellectual property," said Alec Main, Cloakware's CTO. "Protecting critical applications will allow U.S. Forces to extend and maintain their technological advantage over their adversaries. Creating applications that are intrinsically resistant to attack to complement existing network security and operating system access controls results in an effective in depth defense." One of the primary goals of the AT-SPI is to institutionalize software protection as part of the application software lifecycle. A wide array of user friendly protection techniques is required to meet protection requirements for the broad range of critical DoD applications. The AT-SPI Technology Office is evaluating Cloakware's software protection technology to quantify its ease of integration into the software development process, and the effectiveness of its protection techniques. "We are very pleased to see the AT-SPI Technology Office taking such a prominent and active role in promoting the need for improved software protection capabilities," said Donald Whiteside, Vice President, Legal and Government Affairs at Intel. "The combination of Cloakware and Intel technology provides a broad based, anti-tamper software solution for protecting and ensuring the integrity of critical application software such as those targeted by the AT-SPI."