DALLAS, December 8 /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
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