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	February 1, 2005

Bankservice Plc partners with E-Lock to offer electronic signature solutions in the Bulgarian Market.

Frontier Technologies Corporation (E-Lock) today announced a partnership with Bankservice Plc who signed up to become an official E-Lock Partner for Bulgaria.

Bankservice Plc. is an Automated Clearing House of the Bulgarian banks and a registered Certification Services Provider for Bulgaria. Effective September 2003,Bankservice Plc. is registered by the Commission for Regulation of Communications (CRC) as a Certification Services Provider (CSP) under the Electronic Document and Electronic Signature Act. While developing PKI is an important and necessary prerequisite/step,it is not sufficient to satisfy the growing demands of the Bulgarian market. Clients need trusted services,as well as specialized solutions for applying the universal electronic signature. As Bulgaria moves towards joining the European Union in the recent future,it needs to comply with the standards,practices and directives of the EU. This is where E-Lock comes in,as E-Lock’s digital signature solutions are already compliant with the requirements of the EU law governing electronic signatures.

"There is going to be a growing necessity for digital certificates and related products and services in Bulgaria," said Lubomir Tzekov,Executive Director of Bankservice Plc. "In my opinion Frontier Technologies Corporation has developed a very good product range,which corresponds to the international standards and satisfies the current and future needs of our clients."

“E-Lock document signing solution was carefully tested for Signatory/Owner’s authentication,for data integrity and for non-repudiation of the document’s signing/validation transactions," said Boian Baev,B-Trust Project Manager from Bankservice Plc. "E-Lock's functionality was successfully tested versus B-Trust certificates for advanced and universal electronic signature and related certificate services,provided from Bankservice Plc. as a CSP according to the Bulgarian Act for electronic signatures."

“We are looking forward to working closely with Bankservice”,said Dr Nimish Shah,VP Business Development for E-Lock. “They are extremely well positioned as a registered CSP for Bulgaria and together we can offer customers a complete solution in compliance with the Bulgarian electronic signature law.”

About E-Lock

Frontier Technologies is a privately owned corporation headquartered in McLean,VA (US). Frontier Technologies entered the PKI and Security market in 1997 by launching the E-Lock range of digital signature products. The digital signature solutions developed by E-Lock have been used by former US President Bill Clinton to digitally sign the US E-Sign Act that legalizes digital signatures,and by Bulgarian President Petar Stoyanov to electronically sign the Bulgarian Electronic Document and Signature Act. E-Lock’s customer base spans countries such as the UK,Australia,Greece,Spain,Hong Kong and others. E-Lock products are used across Government organizations in the US,UK, Perú,Australia,Portugal and Malaysia.

For more information, please visit http://www.elock.com

About Bankservice Plc

Bankservice Plc. is an Automated Clearing House of the Bulgarian banks and a registered Certification Services Provider for Bulgaria. Bankservice Plc. is a joint-stock company and its shareholders are the Bulgarian National Bank and 28 commercial banks. The company offers integrated solutions for complete automation of banking activities and customized solutions for banking accounting and payments,cash operations,currency exchange,credits,dealer activities,banking statistics data etc. They are developed for different hardware and software platforms. From September 2003,Bankservice Plc. is registered by the Commission for Regulation of Communications (CRC) as a Certification Services Provider (CSP) under the Electronic Document and Electronic Signature Act. Bankservice Plc. has ISO 9001:2000 Quality Assurance Certificate and dynamically develops a Quality Management System for achieving higher efficiency.

For more information,please visit http://www.bsbg.net