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To: Tom Drolet who wrote (1588)	3/18/1999 10:47:00 AM
From: Frank Ferrari	Respond to of 4913

Sorry to bother you with all these posts, but this field seems to have news everyday. What is the relationship between CIC and Baltimore? Competitor or Partner? ( BW)(BALTIMORE)(ZGO.) Baltimore UniCERT Chosen by Kommunedata 'KMD' to Establish an E-Commerce Security Infrastructure in Denmark Business Editors and High-Tech Writers CeBIT 99 HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 1999--Baltimore, the operating name of Zergo Holdings plc (London: ZGO), a global leader in e-commerce and enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) solutions has licensed its technology to KMD, Denmark's largest systems operation and software house, to enable the establishment of the first commercial Certificate Authority (CA) service in Denmark. As a Commercial CA , KMD will confirm the identity of users enabling the Danish public to conduct secure Internet business. KMD have purchased Baltimore UniCERT CA system and will act as a Trusted Third Party issuing digital certificates to businesses and individuals. Digital certificates are your electronic credentials for conducting secure e-commerce. Acting like "Digital Ids" or "Digital Passport," they provide the authentication and confidentiality for a variety of systems including online banking, online shopping, secure email and virtual private networks. "There is a need for authentication and confidentiality when dealing on the Internet. Following a thorough evaluation of PKI technology we chose Baltimore's UniCERT system for its open, policy driven architecture which provides the highest level of trust for the transmission and storage of sensitive information on public networks," said Finn Grimstad, Vice President Technical Development at KMD. Businesses and consumers have been restricted in leveraging the full potential capabilities of electronic messaging and Internet-based technologies because of uncertainties surrounding issues of identity, confidentiality, privacy, trust and authority. Commercial CA's, also known as Trusted Third Parties are agencies which provide an authentication and certification service to other organisations or end users to enable secure Internet business. They issue and manage digital certificates (also known as Digital ID's or Digital Passports) which are used within a PKI to electronically authenticate users. "KMD's technical expertise and solid reputation, especially within the Public Sector, make them an ideal organisation to act as a Certificate Authority. Baltimore is excited about working with KMD to establish a secure infrastructure for E-Commerce in Denmark," commented Aidan Gallagher, Vice President Sales at Baltimore. KMD will run a certificate management system, issuing digital certificates online for enterprise and public users. KMD will also be responsible for critical PKI activities including user identity validation, certificate generation and signing, managing certificates in a directory and performing certificate revocation and validation at the highest trust level. KMD has already announced that it is deploying CA services for a project initiated by the Ministry of Research in Denmark. Further information on KMD's CA service can be found at kmd-ca.dk. Over the past few months, Baltimore has announced a number of Commercial CA deployments world-wide. More information is available on baltimore.com. About UniCERT Baltimore's award winning UniCERT is the company's flagship product and one of the leading Certificate Authority (CA) systems worldwide. UniCERT publishes digital certificates, which are your electronic credentials for secure e-commerce. It is a policy driven system offering flexible, scalable deployment for both public and private CAs. Its modular design allows for distributed operation for a wide variety of systems including secure electronic transactions, secure email, secure web and virtual private networks. UniCERT also includes a unique policy enforcement system enabling security policies to be enforced at registration and at application level. About Baltimore Baltimore develops and markets security products and services for a wide range of e-commerce and enterprise applications. Its products include Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) systems, cryptographic toolkits, security applications and hardware cryptographic devices. Baltimore UniCERT is a modular, scalable, multipurpose Certificate Authority (CA) which issues and manages digital certificates for a wide range of applications including email, browsers and virtual private networks. Baltimore PKI-Plus is a developer toolkit to PKI-enable legacy and new applications by providing support for a wide range of cryptographic, directory, smartcard and CA systems. Baltimore's PKI products are available directly and via global Trusted World partners. All products are supported by professional services comprising of system integration and consulting. Baltimore was formed by the merger in January 1999 of Zergo Holdings plc and Baltimore Technologies Ltd. It has customers in over forty countries world-wide including some of the world's leading financial, e-commerce, telecommunications companies and government agencies. Baltimore is the operating name of Zergo Holdings plc, a public company quoted on the London Stock Exchange (ZGO). Intel Corporation is a minority shareholder in the company. Baltimore operates from 10 cities world-wide with main offices in London, Dublin, Plano (Texas) and Sydney. Baltimore made e-commerce history in 1998 when President Clinton and Ireland's Prime Minister Ahern digitally signed an inter-governmental communique using security technology provided by Baltimore. For further information and press releases on Baltimore, please visit baltimore.com

To: Tom Drolet who wrote (1588)	3/18/1999 10:54:00 AM
From: Frank Ferrari	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4913

I answered my own question, the previous release is undoubtedly good news for CIC. Here is an old article. They specifically mention unicert. Baltimore adds elliptic curve , PC Week April 24, 1998 4:21 PM PDT Security Baltimore Technologies Ltd., of Dublin, Ireland, said last week that it is integrating elliptic curve cryptography from Toronto-based Certicom Corp. into its security applications and tool kits. Baltimore is among the first companies to provide Java developers with a tool kit to work with elliptic curve algorithms. Other Baltimore products with new elliptic curve capabilities will include the UniCert Certification Authority software. Also last week, Certicom announced that Xcert International Inc., in San Francisco, will include elliptic curve tools in its Certificate Authority software. And NTT Electronics Corp., of Japan, will add Certicom's elliptic curve technology to its own NSafer software development kit. Baltimore is at 353-1-605-4399 or www.baltimore.ie. Certicom is at (800) 561-6100 or www.certicom.com.