Rainbow Technologies was an encryption and information security company based in Orange County

Orange County, California

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, California

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, that was acquired by SafeNet, Inc.

Safenet-Inc

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 in 2003. Through its acquisition of Mykotronx, Rainbow Technologies was responsible for developing and supporting top secret encryption devices used by the NSA

National Security Agency

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, NRO

National Reconnaissance Office

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, and other government agencies. The company also had a line of commercial security and identity management products like the iKey USB authentication token.