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"AuthenTec is working with Texas Instruments on integrating its Entre-Pad AES3500 sensor with TI's OMAP (Open Multimedia Applications Platform) processor architecture, which many major cell phone manufacturers plan to incorporate in their next-generation handsets. Mansfield predicts that handsets and other devices using AuthenTec's technology will be out next year.

Texas Instruments has also licensed technology from NTRU for its OMAP processors. NTRU makes public-key cryptography solutions that can fit into small-footprint devices like mobile phones and RFID (radio frequency identification) tags that can identify baggage at airports. "The big things about NTRU's technology are the speed and the size," says Guy Singh, director of wireless for NTRU. "It's specifically designed for constrained environments. In a wireless environment, you have hardly any bandwidth. The technology is going to be used within applications that require high-strength security, and any application that involves a payment." The company expects to have its security solutions available once cell phone manufacturers begin selling OMAP-based handsets, probably later this year." http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0DXS/4_8/84800203/p3/article.jhtml?term=

NTRU Professional Services Team and Microsoft to Develop Next-Generation Computing Solutions
July 21, 2003--
NTRU Launches Professional Services Unit in Collaboration With World's Leading Software Vendor
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SAFLINK JOINS MICROSOFT® IN WORLDWIDE LAUNCH OF WINDOWS® SERVER 2003 AND VISUAL STUDIO .NET

SAFsolution® Enterprise Edition delivers tight integration and enhanced security features for Windows® Server 2003

SAN FRANCISCO - April 24, 2003 - SAFLINK® Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: SFLK), a leading developer, marketer, and integrator of biometric security solutions, announced today the availability of SAFsolution® Enterprise Edition biometric security software for Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003. The company is among a selected group of Microsoft partners demonstrating their solutions at today's worldwide launch of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Visual Studio .NET™ 2003 in San Francisco. Industry leaders such as HP, Intel, and IBM will also be exhibiting their products at the launch.

"We are honored to be a part of this launch. We believe it validates the work that our people have done and the strength of our technology," said Glenn Argenbright, President and CEO of SAFLINK. "Microsoft is the world's leading software company and we sincerely look forward to working with them on future deployments."

SAFsolution Enterprise Edition is one of the first biometric security solutions designed and tested specifically for mid- to large-size organizations using Microsoft Active Directory® service, a foundation for managing identities and relationships within the Windows 2003 environment. SAFsolution helps enterprises improve security and ease network administration by replacing text-based passwords with a variety of unique physical characteristics, including fingerprint, voice, iris, and facial recognition.

"SAFLINK software offers customers an authentication security solution that is tightly coupled with Windows Server 2003 Active Directory," said Vic Gundotra, General Manager Platform Evangelism of Microsoft. "As companies migrate to Windows Server 2003, the security of their network environment will be a critical consideration. SAFLINK's integration with Windows Server 2003 will be an attractive option for our customers to increase that security."

SAFsolution utilizes the new features of Windows Server 2003 to deliver enhanced network security and performance, and is designed to integrate easily with Windows Server 2003. The software includes support for Windows Active Directory™ in Application Mode (AD/AM). SAFLINK believes that SAFsolution is the first multi-biometric security solution that includes support for AD/AM.

Companies who deploy Windows Server 2003 will benefit from greater application security, such as explicit Active Directory authorization checks and COM+ private components. Additional improvements include network load balancing and new features like COM+ application recycling. These features will help to strengthen the performance and reliability of SAFsolution, which provides strong user authentication through biometrics. SAFLINK plans to begin shipping the updated version of SAFsolution to new and existing customers by the end of the second quarter, 2003.

SAFLINK is scheduled to demonstrate SAFsolution Enterprise Edition at today's Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 Worldwide Launch in the Microsoft Partner Pavilion at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, please contact Tom Doggett of SAFLINK at [e-mail] or 425-278-1202.

Microsoft's plug-and-play biometrics
April 28, 2003, 6:00 PM PDT

AuthenTec, a maker of fingerprint-recognition sensors, announced on Monday that it had signed a deal with Microsoft to integrate software support for biometrics into the Windows operating system.

AuthenTec will create a reference driver that will be the example for other biometric hardware makers to follow in designing their own driver software. In addition, a new application programming interface (API) will allow software to access new hardware features made available through the drivers, said Michael Stephenson, lead product manager for Microsoft's Windows server group.

"We can now make (biometrics) plug-and-play compatible," Stephenson said. "Once the device is plugged in, it will automatically load the driver."

Although fingerprint-recognition security packages are currently available for Microsoft Windows, integrating the common software into the operating system will make such solutions easier to install and offer more features for customers, Stephenson said.

"Our goal is to make it as easy as possible and as secure as possible for our customer to implement this solution," Stephenson said.

Biometrics include any technology for identifying people by physical characteristics. Fingerprint, facial-feature, retina and handprint recognition are all common forms of biometric technology, but for PC sign-on applications, fingerprint recognition is by far the most popular.

AuthenTec will work with Microsoft to develop a driver that will be shipped with the Device Driver Kit (DDK) to other hardware makers as an example of how to code the driver.
"This collaborative effort will accelerate the acceptance and application of biometrics in computing," Scott Moody, president and CEO of AuthenTec, said in a statement.

AuthenTec and SAFLINK Announce Joint Marketing Initiative
Technology Remarketing Agreement Will Speed Adoption of FingerLoc-Based Biometric Solutions
July 13, 2000

In a move that emphasizes the increasing use of biometric security solutions in the enterprise network, PC and e-commerce markets, AuthenTec, Inc., the provider of patented FingerLoc sensor technology, and SAFLINK Corporation (NASDAQ: eSAF), a leading global biometric software provider, have signed a joint technology remarketing agreement that leverages the companies' combined strengths in biometric technologies to bring fingerprint authentication solutions to market more quickly.

Under the terms of the agreement, AuthenTec will offer SAFLINK's Secure Authentication Facility (SAF™) family of data and network security products to its growing list of original equipment manufacturing (OEM) partners that have agreed to integrate AuthenTec's FingerLoc sensor technology into their products. Several companies are committed to integrating AuthenTec's FingerLoc sensor technology into their PC hardware products that include keyboards, mice and stand-alone peripherals. SAFLINK will also offer support for AuthenTec's FingerLoc sensor technology to its own distribution channel customers, and will include AuthenTec's standards-based biometric service provider software interface module in its packaged multi-biometric software solutions, thereby making these products "AuthenTec Ready" for use with FingerLoc-based hardware devices.

"SAFLINK is very pleased to be working with AuthenTec to deliver convenient and reliable biometric security solutions to our combined customer base," said Walter Hamilton, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at SAFLINK Corporation. "The combination of our SAF Family of software products and AuthenTec's FingerLoc sensor technology will deliver a broader array of security options for all of our customers."

SAFLINK's SAF Family of software products offers an open-systems modular approach to client/server architecture that can be easily expanded from a single workstation to a large distributed network. AuthenTec's FingerLoc sensor incorporates patented TruePrint technology to read below the surface layer of the skin to the live layer, where the true fingerprint resides. Real-world skin surface conditions, such as dry, worn, callused, oily or dirty skin do not affect FingerLoc's ability to acquire clear and accurate fingerprint images. SAFLINK's SAF products complement FingerLoc to provide technically superior biometric identification and authentication products designed to replace passwords and PINs. As a result, SAFLINK and AuthenTec customers will have greater access to more convenient and cost-effective biometric options for enterprise network, e-commerce and PC environments.

"This agreement sends a powerful message to customers who need complete biometrics solutions for their IT environments," said Steve Mansfield, Vice President of Marketing at AuthenTec, Inc. "Customers who adopt AuthenTec's FingerLoc sensor technology can now use the full spectrum of SAFLINK' s products. AuthenTec is excited to be a part of SAFLINK's ‘Forget Your Password' business strategy and we look forward to the release of the new SAF products for the business-to-consumer and business-to-business market."