The Finnish Population Register Centre to Deploy Entrust EAC ePassport CA Solution

Dallas (ots/PRNewswire) -

- Finland's EAC migration to meet European Union's June 2009
deadline

Building off of the momentum of September's impressive showing at
the ePassports EAC Conformity & Interoperability Tests, Entrust, Inc.
(Nasdaq: ENTU) advances its role as the world's ePassport leader by
being selected to supply the CA software for Finland's migration to
advanced second-generation ePassports based on the Extended Access
Control (EAC) standard.

"Second-generation ePassports represent the beginning of an
evolution that will improve the reliability and security of
electronic travel documents," said System Integrator Erkki Wuoma at
the Finnish Population Register Centre. "Entrust's EAC ePassport CA
solution was selected because it was a ready, well-documented, fully
supported and security evaluated product."

With the European Union's June 2009 deadline for migration to the
EAC standard looming, Finland's Population Register Centre expects
the transition to the new EAC ePassport CA solution to be complete by
the end of the first quarter in 2009. Upon migration, the Finnish
Population Register Centre will be able to provide the Finnish Police
the ePassport CA services needed for the issuing of EAC ePassports to
its citizens. To support its migration to the new EAC ePassport CA
solution, the Finnish Population Register Centre acquires
Professional Services and security hardware from its partner nCipher.

"With the importance of national border security top of mind,
Finland recognized the need to meet the EU June 2009 deadline by
partnering with the leader in ePassport security," said Entrust
President and CEO Bill Conner. "The second generation of ePassports
raises the bar for border security and the integrity of identity
documents, truly ensuring that criminals cannot circumvent border
controls. We applaud Finland for making the move to EAC ePassports as
they will severely limit criminal organizations' ability to forge
travel documents and cross borders undetected."

Much like Finland, countries are now beginning to evolve their
ePassport programs to a second-generation framework that includes
capabilities for EAC. European Union (EU) Member States will be
required to add fingerprint data to machine-readable travel documents
(MRTDs) with the information protected through the EAC scheme by or
before the June 2009 deadline.

The second generation of ePassports, based on EAC, allows
governments to leverage a stronger biometric (typically a fingerprint
or iris scan) that is more difficult to impersonate. They require the
passport reader to authenticate itself to the passport chip, thereby
preventing "skimming," the practice of an unauthorized reader
interrogating the chip and extracting sensitive personal information.
EAC ePassports also strengthen the encryption of the communication
between the chip and the reader; thereby preventing eavesdropping of
the passport data.

Because of the requirement for the passport chip to authenticate
the reader, the PKI requirements are much higher, demanding a vendor
that can provide scalability, reliability and unprecedented
performance. It is this PKI foundation that allows ePassports to be
read at border stations, but not by criminals who may seek access to
the data for purposes of manipulation or impersonation.

Entrust has a long history of providing security software and
services to government agencies across the world. Entrust provides
security solutions for e-government and national security initiatives
in more than 30 countries worldwide. Government agencies are
leveraging the flexible and scalable solutions that Entrust offers to
secure transactions and information internally and with citizens,
businesses, suppliers and contractors.

The top e-governments in the world rely on Entrust. As ranked by
Accenture, the top eight e-governments in the world, including
Finland, Singapore, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States,
Denmark, Sweden and Norway, use Entrust solutions to protect
sensitive information and enable secure online services.

About the Finnish Population Register Centre

The Finnish Population Register Centre produces personal and
building data services of the highest quality, as well as
identification solutions for online services to cater for the
different needs of the society. The Centre develops and maintains the
Population Information System, the Guardianship Register and the
Public Sector Contact Directory, and provides assistance for
organizing elections. The Centre is the national Certification
Authority services provider, and creates the electronic identity for
Finnish citizens when providing them with a personal identity code
and the electronic ID. The Centre also provides eID's for government
employees, as well as for employees in other organizations. The
Centre is the only CA in Finland that issues qualified certificates
as specified in the Act on Electronic Signatures and the relevant EU
Directive. The Population Register Centre is also the CA provider for
the first generation of ePassports in Finland.

Founded in 1969, the Population Register Centre operates under
Finland's Ministry of Finance and aims to be a Reliable Service
Centre for the Information Society and develop its activities to best
meet the needs of its customers -- the government, the private sector
and citizens.

About Entrust

Entrust [NASDAQ: ENTU] secures digital identities and information
for consumers, enterprises and governments in more than 2,000
organizations spanning 60 countries. Leveraging a layered security
approach to address growing risks, Entrust solutions help secure the
most common digital identity and information protection pain points
in an organization. These include SSL, authentication, fraud
detection, shared data protection and e-mail security. For
information, call +1-888-690-2424, e-mail entrust@entrust.com or
visit http://www.entrust.com.

Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust, Inc. in the United
States and certain other countries. In Canada, Entrust is a
registered trademark of Entrust Limited. All Entrust product names
are trademarks or registered trademarks of Entrust, Inc. or Entrust
Limited. All other company and product names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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