Entrust Begins Deployment of SPOC ePassport Solution for Finland's Population Register Centre

Entrust's Single Point of Contact (SPOC) solution manages certificates for Finland's EAC ePassport environment

DALLAS, August 31, 2010 - Two years ago, Entrust, Inc., was selected by the Finnish Population
Register Centre (VRK) to implement an advanced Extended Access Control
(www.entrust.com/government/e-passport_eac.htm) (EAC) ePassport
solution (www.entrust.com/government/e-passport.htm). Now in 2010,
Finland again called on Entrust, this time to deploy the Single Point of
Contact (SPOC) (www.entrust.com/government/e-passport.htm)
infrastructure required by the European Union (EU) for EAC-enabled
ePassports.

"By taking advantage of the latest in ePassport technology
(www.entrust.com/epassport-solution/index.htm), the Finnish government
continues to strengthen border security and protect the identities and well
being of its citizens," said System Integrator Erkki Wuoma at the Finnish
Population Register Centre. "With Entrust's EAC ePassport solution already in
place, it was a natural, easy choice to also deploy a proven SPOC
environment."

An important protocol developed by the EU and the former Brussels
Interoperability Group (BIG), SPOC serves as the standardized mechanism for
certificate management between countries for support of EAC-enabled
ePassports. Each participating nation establishes a SPOC interface that acts
as a front-end for domestic EAC components. International EAC certificate
requests and responses are communicated directly between SPOCs.

"The Finnish government continues to be a leader within the EU in the use
of electronic machine-readable travel documents to bolster identity-based
border security," said Entrust President and CEO Bill Conner. "And while SPOC
is a relatively new standard, Finland is helping to promote the adoption of
the critical technology for the benefit of all EU member nations and their
citizens."

The Finnish Population Register Centre plans to have the SPOC up and
running in production by the end of the year. During the implementation,
testing with other EU countries will be conducted.

In October 2009, Entrust led a critical initiative to provide the
security community with an online interoperability and demonstration site
that enabled countries and other third parties to test their SPOC
implementations. Entrust's demonstration implemented the standardized
certificate management protocol to be used across international borders,
emulated a fully functional SPOC interface and enabled users to test their
SPOC capabilities online.

The Entrust SPOC ePassport solution is a component of the Entrust
Authority public key infrastructure (PKI) platform. Entrust provides a unique
dual-rooted ePassport PKI certification authority (CA) to allow seamless
migration from first-generation (BAC) deployments to second-generation (EAC)
architectures. Entrust provides ePassport security for many governments,
including the U.S., Finland, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Singapore, New
Zealand and more.

The Finnish Population Register Centre produces personal and building
data services of the highest quality, as well as identification solutions for
online services to cater to the different needs of the society. The Centre
develops and maintains the Population Information System, the Guardianship
Register and the Public Sector Contact Directory, and provides assistance for
organizing elections.

The Centre is the national Certification Authority services provider, and
creates the electronic identity for Finnish citizens when providing them with
a personal identity code and the electronic ID. The Centre also provides eIDs
for government employees, as well as for employees in other organizations.
The Centre is the only CA in Finland that issues qualified certificates as
specified in the Act on Electronic Signatures and the relevant EU Directive.
The Population Register Centre is also the CA provider for the first
generation of ePassports in Finland.

Founded in 1969, the Population Register Centre operates under Finland's
Ministry of Finance and aims to be a Reliable Service Centre for the
Information Society and develop its activities to address the needs of its
customers — the government, the private sector and citizens.

About Entrust

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enterprises, consumers, citizens and Web sites in more than 4,000
organizations spanning 60 countries. Entrust's identity-based approach offers
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