DALLAS, April 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Entrust to present ePassport capabilities at Nigerian ICAO event

Just six months after an impressive showing at the ePassports EAC
Conformity & Interoperability Tests in Prague, Czech Republic, Entrust, Inc.
(Nasdaq: ENTU) aims to further strengthen its global leadership position. The
ePassport security expert will express strong support for the creation of
Master List Signing during this week's ICAO Regional Seminar on Machine
Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs), Biometrics and Security Standards in
Abuja, Nigeria.

"While full adoption of Master List creation and signing is still on the
horizon, its benefits are too important to ignore," said Entrust President
and CEO Bill Conner. "We fully support this initiative - so much so, Entrust
has enabled a Master List Signing certificate profile within the upcoming
release of our proven ePassport security solution. This will enable our
customers to strategically develop their Master List Signing capabilities
from a trusted security partner."

In development by the ICAO, the Master Signing List is a simple method to
reduce expensive, time-consuming duplication that exists in the current
ePassport verification process. Once a certain number of countries have
imported the signature verification keys from a number of issuing countries,
a level of assurance develops in the veracity of the verification keys. If
they then publish those keys in Master Lists, a third country can import the
Master Lists - along with the verification keys of those countries that
signed them - and validate them with an understanding that there has already
been some assurance established in the keys on the Master Lists.

With the judicious application of import rules, the third country can
achieve the required level of assurance in the authenticity of some or all of
those keys - without incurring the full expense, time-delay and inconvenience
of independently importing them directly from the issuing countries.

In Nigeria, Entrust will also demonstrate advanced capabilities in Basic
Access Control (BAC) and Extended Access Control (EAC) technology. Entrust is
currently the only security vendor that offers a dual-rooted ePassport
solution, which enables organizations to deploy BAC ePassports and then
seamlessly migrate to EAC ePassports from a single platform.

"Even though some countries aren't yet required to issue EAC ePassports,
Entrust believes providing a dual-rooted platform will ease and simplify
global adoption of the technology," said Conner. "This capability is
especially attractive for governments who haven't started ePassport
deployment but want to maximize their investment and be ready for the
upcoming EAC standard."

Countries are in the process of evolving their ePassport programs to a
second-generation framework that includes capabilities for EAC. European
Union (EU) member countries will be required to add fingerprint data to
machine readable travel documents (MRTDs) with the biometric information
protected through the EAC scheme by June.

The ICAO event, hosted with the United Nations Counter-Terrorism
Executive Directorate (CTED), brings together various national security
agencies, civil registries, national and other identity issuers and managers,
passport-issuing agencies, immigration, customs, police, civil aviation,
facilitation and other border control and security authorities.

Entrust has a long history of providing security software and services to
government agencies across the world, including the United States, United
Kingdom, Slovenia, Singapore, Taiwan and New Zealand. 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.

About Entrust

Entrust [NASDAQ: ENTU] provides trusted solutions that secure digital
identities and information for enterprises and governments in 2,000
organizations spanning 60 countries. Offering trusted security for less,
Entrust solutions represent the right balance between affordability,
expertise and service. These include SSL, strong authentication, fraud
detection, digital certificates and PKI. For information, call
+1-888-690-2424, e-mail entrust@entrust.com or visit www.entrust.com.

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