After listening to the report, I immediately thought of SKS's 4thQ 2009 CC remarks:
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"Finally, let me talk a little bit about the government side. This has been a very interesting quarter from a government perspective. Not only did we sign a new contract for work within the government. It's a $1.6 million plus deal, and we've already made some of our first deliverables this quarter. If you look from a revenue perspective actually that was one of the areas where in the fourth quarter there was, I don't know that there was any contribution really from the government work that we've been doing, because we finished most of the work in the third quarter. And we've really just begun the full effect of this contract in first quarter. So, we are underway, building a number of components. We're very pleased to be doing that. It's a tremendous piece of business for us.
We see today broad based adoption of the Trusted Computing base as part of the security for the Defense Department and for a number of the federal agencies. And it's becoming clearer and clearer every day to the broader marketplace that that is the case. So a lot of the work that the government has been doing in what's known in the industry as Trusted Execution is all based on the Trusted Platform Module being in a machine. And so, Wave has a tremendous opportunity there. We've been in the government marketplace with Trusted Platform Modules and self-encrypting drives, for now a number of years, and we'll see the adoption in machine identity, the need for the Trusted Platform Module to hold keys for Microsoft applications, and as the core root of trust for Trusted Execution.
People will see those terms used, Trusted Execution, in some cases Trusted Execution is now branded by NSA as High Assurance Platform. They're relatively interchangeable. There's a fair amount of information on the web about High Assurance Platform and its use of the Trusted Platform Module underpinning it. So, many forces are coming together in the industry from Intel shipping their new chip sets, which have support for the Trusted Execution components, the TPM being broadly available, the government work clearly being articulated in the marketplace as requiring it. Wave has some interesting advantages as well. We just recently received our certificate of net worthiness for our EMBASSY Trust Suite, which allows us to deploy across all government machines. That's a very important sort of next step of certification for us, and we're very excited to see that. So, that really opens the door for us to deploy our technology as a standard capability to manage the Trusted Platform Module. And I think we're in a unique position in that marketplace today.
The challenge of course with the government is when are they actually going to order something in any scale? We certainly have many individual groups within the government today as customers. We've shipped thousands of copies of software within the government realm so far. But ultimately, this is about turning on the Trusted Platform Module across the four or five million machines within the federal space. So, it's a huge opportunity for us. We continue to invest in it. I think we will see significant tangible progress over the course of this year. It's certainly in some days been a little bit like watching paint dry, but the adoption of TPM across the entire federal space I think is going very well.
So finally, let me just touch on two last pieces. We continue to explore the use of Trusted Platform Modules for strong identity. We have a service that's up on the web called id.wave.com. We're just about to launch a next version of the service. You'll see it most likely before the first of April. It will continue to be a beta service. We learned a lot from watching our first beta service about how the web is going to interact with Trusted Platform Modules. It has been extremely useful. This version actually meets all the open identity for open government initiatives. So we're going through our ICAM certification. What that means is that the government is agreeing to allow third party identity credentials to log you on to a bunch of government sites. And so our service will meet the requirements to do that.
So, you'll be able to use your Trusted Platform Module to go get your camping license or something along those lines. Any government website that is out there should support OpenID credentials, and from a variety of providers, and we'll be one of them. And this provides a very secure logon to whether it's something like Google APPs or salesforce.com, where I have no passwords. I log into my machine with its trusted drive. It unlocks my platform. My TPM secures my credentials to log me onto the web and it automatically connects me to Google apps or Sales force or any of the ID sites that are out there. We think that really begins to show a paradigm where your PC can start to look like in ways your smart phone works. I log into my device; my device logs me into the rest of the world.
It's still a beta site. We clearly know that there's additional work to be done. It's not something that is yet really ready for strong marketing. Anybody is welcome to test it. I would suggest that you wait pr'y until after the first of April. But, if you have a computer with a Trusted Platform Module, it will work. And you can begin to get a sense of what it would be like. Clearly, one of the tasks is more of the websites are going to have to promote how you go in and do this. It's a little complicated in some cases to figure out how it all works. "
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