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	December 17, 2005

Romanian IT&C Ministry to pilot E-Lock’s digital signature solution

Frontier Technologies Corporation (E-Lock) today announced that the Romanian IT&C Ministry would be piloting its E-Lock DeskSeal electronic signature solution.

The Ministry of Communications and information Technology will be supplied electronic signatures by E-Lock, a leading vendor of digital signature products, through its Romanian business partner Trans Sped srl Romania. E-Lock DeskSeal - the signature solution that will be used by the MCIT - is a very easy to use signing and encryption software, which enables signing/encryption of any document or file format. It is a wizard-based utility and is extremely user friendly.

"With widespread use of electronic processes and applications comes the issue of security, protecting data, and identifying individuals electronically. Electronic signatures help address this and as a step in this direction, The IT&C Ministry will be piloting an electronic desktop signature solution. This will help in digitally signing all kinds of documents and will replace the need for handwritten signatures. It will also help identify users electronically (through the use of digital certificates) and protect data where required (through encryption) making it available only to intended recipients." declared the Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Mr. Zsolt Nagy.

The Romanian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology is the specialized body of central public administration in the IT&C sector, established with the objective of implementing the Romanian Government policy in this sector. The mission of the Ministry is to create solid premises that will ensure the transition to the Information Society in Romania. The transition to the Information Society is a strategic objective for the Romanian Government for 2004 - 2008. The Romanian Government is strongly promoting and recognizing the widespread use of the Internet and electronic applications in various areas right from e-government and electronic commerce to education and basic everyday use.

In December Trans Sped won the auction for implementing the electronic signature system for The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. The development of electronic communication demands a resizing of protection systems for public institutions and companies. Trans Sped will offer in Romania such a solution by using a platform designed by E-lock. This technology will be implemented for The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology by replacing signatures with electronic signatures on the institution's documents. Using digital certificates, the new system will also allow the identification of all the users, which have permission to access the electronic documents from this institution.

E-lock is one of the top international companies to supply encrypting solutions, offering products for the Romanian market, distributed by Trans Sped. The application that will be implemented for The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology is called E-lock DeskSeal; it represents an e-signature software very easy to use by ministry employees for signing and encrypting documents in any electronic format.", said Mrs. Viky Manaila, Managing Director of Trans Sped srl.

"We have seen tremendous interest in our electronic signature solutions by Romanian companies and we have concrete deployments in industries such as banking, hospitality and telecom in Romania", said Dr Nimish Shah, VP Business Development for E-Lock. "Our solutions are used by over 15 Government organizations worldwide and we are proud that the Romanian IT&C Ministry has chosen to pilot our solution."

E-Lock’s products make use of digital certificates for signing of documents and transactions. E-Lock provides both desktop and web based electronic signature solutions. While the desktop products are quick to set up and very easy to use, the web based solutions provide organizations with the flexibility to integrate digital signature capabilities into existing processes and workflows at critical points where security is required.

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 US, UK, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Romania and others.

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

About Trans Sped srl

Trans Sped is a privately owned company headquartered in Bucharest, Romania. Trans Sped is a Certification Authority according to Romanian Law on electronic signature and to Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament on a community framework for electronic signatures, which are issuing qualified digital certificates.

For more information, please visit http://www.transsped.ro