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Company Press Release SOURCE: National Registry Inc. NRI Announces Support For New Fingerprint Scanning Devices NRI's Multi-Biometric Network Security Software Products will Now Support Three Fingerprint Sensor Technologies TAMPA, Fla., April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Registry Inc. (Nasdaq: NRID - news; NRI) today announced that it has qualified three additional fingerprint sensor technologies for use with its suite of NRIdentity(TM) multi-biometric network security software products. These fingerprint sensor technologies include: The Verifier(TM) from Cross Check Corporation, the VPS(TM) from Veridicom, Inc. and the TactileSense(R) from Who?Vision Systems, Inc. ''Since our NRIdentity software products are now based on the Human Authentication API (HA-API) open standard, we are able to provide our customers with more flexibility and choice for biometric identification when implementing secure network systems,'' said Clint Fuller, chief operating officer at NRI. ''Each of these fingerprint sensors represent significant technology advances that we believe will make finger-image based network user authentication much more affordable and practical. NRI sees its role as a multi-biometric software solutions company that is committed to an open systems approach. We will be a market leader in bringing affordable packaged biometric solutions for positive personal identification to the information systems environment.'' The NRIdentity multi-biometric product suite includes packaged applications, such as the Secure Authentication Facility for Windows NT(R), the Secure Authentication Facility for Microsoft Internet Information Server, and the Secure Authentication Facility for Computer Associates Unicenter(R) TNG(TM) with Single Sign-On Option(TM). For developers and integrators, NRI offers its NRIdentity Solution Sets software developer's kits that are also fully compliant with the HA-API standard. NRIdentity software solutions are qualified with several present generation fingerprint sensors, including Key Tronic's Secure Scanner Series. In addition to fingerprint-based technologies, NRI's multi-biometric software product line now includes options for other biometric technologies including SpeakerKey(R) speaker verification technology from ITT Industries, Inc. and FaceIt(R) facial recognition technology from Visionics Corporation. Many of these technologies can be seen in action at NRI's exhibit booth #2730 at the upcoming CardTech/SecurTech conference in Washington, D. C. on April 28-30, 1998. About NRI . . . yada yada.