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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (10)	10/8/2001 12:59:07 PM
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ActivCard Delivers Second Generation Smart Card Software ActivCard Gold Version 2.0 Offers Unmatched Support for US Government Common Access Card Standards, Offers Extended Features Enabling Departmental Management and Control FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- ActivCard (Nasdaq: ACTI; Nasdaq Europe) the leading provider of digital identity management products and technology today announced general availability of ActivCard Gold version 2.0, the second generation of its standards-based smart card software. ActivCard was the first to deliver smart card software compliant with the GSA Smart Access Common Identification Interoperability specification. ActivCard Gold v2.0 is tightly integrated with the ActivCard smart card and digital identity provisioning and issuance solution deployed by the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) for the system being used to issue Common Access Cards (CACs) to over 4 million Department of Defense (DOD) uniformed services personnel, civilian employees, and eligible contractors. ``The CAC program may be one of the largest and most ambitious smart card deployments in the world, and has required the establishment of interoperability specifications and smart card issuance technology never before available in the market,'' said Mary Dixon, director of the Department of Defense's Access Card Office. ``Vendors, such as ActivCard, continue to assist the Department as they deliver more and more robust 'commercial-off-the-shelf' solutions, while meeting our interoperability specifications and assisting us in achieving our CAC program goals and objectives.'' All CAC compliant solutions enable use of the credentials generated and stored on the CAC cards issued by the DMDC. ActivCard Goldv2.0 offers extended features that give DOD components, such as the Department of the Navy, and the Space and Naval Weapons Command (SPAWAR), the ability to securely load and manage credentials through the users workstation. The component groups thus have the benefit of using the same secure loading protocols and technology used by the DMDC to issue the card without returning to the central card issuance station. ActivCard Gold v2.0 continues to offer PKI independence, smart card hardware independence, and full support for US Government and industry standards. ``ActivCard's leadership in digital identity provisioning, built on our early innovations and product development, continues apace,'' said Tom Arthur, ActivCard Senior Vice President. The company's role in the DOD CAC program and the selection of the ActivCard smart card and digital identity provisioning technology by the DMDC, combined with the selection of ActivCard by the leaders in network computing including Hewlett Packard and Sun Microsystems for their own internal smart card deployments, has made ActivCard the vendor of choice. ActivCard Gold v2.0 has been selected for initial deployments within the Navy and the DMDC and continues to be evaluated by several other organizations within DOD. About ActivCard ActivCard, a leader in digital identity and electronic certification technology, delivers core components required to enable next generation e-Business communications and transactions. ActivCard solutions, in conjunction with the applications support for public key-based data confidentiality, and integrity, allow individuals and businesses to perform secure online transactions over the Internet with the ease-of-use of an ATM transaction. Today, more than 2 million people use ActivCard products for secure Internet banking, Web access and remote access to corporate networks. ActivCard has headquarters in Fremont, California, and Suresnes, France with worldwide operations in Australia, Germany, Japan, Sweden, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. This press release may contain forward-looking statements which reflect management's best judgment based on factors currently known. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the statements included in this press release. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements which speak only as of the date hereof. SOURCE: ActivCard