Common Criteria EAL4+ Certificate for MaskTech’s ICAO ePassport and eID Chip Operating System MTCOS V2.1 EAC.

Nuremberg, July 22, 2008

MaskTech today announced it has obtained the Common Criteria EAL4+ (Evaluation Assurance Level) high certification for its operating system software MTCOS Standard & Professional V2.1. The certificate has been issued by the German BSI - Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (Federal Office for Information Security) according to the Extended Access Control Protection Profile (BSI-PP0026) for high security travel documents with fingerprint protection mechanisms according to ICAO and EU standards.

Under Common Criteria, products are evaluated against strict standards that validate the product's security, design process, development environment, functionality, vulnerability handling, testing and documentation. This is the second security certification for MTCOS in the passport market.

To date, MaskTech has earned a Common Criteria certification for:

- MTCOS Standard & Professional V2.0 operating system - EAL 4+ high (BSI-DSZ-CC-0384) - http://www.bsi.bund.de/zertifiz/zert/reporte/0384a.pdf

- MTCOS Standard & Professional V2.1 operating system - EAL 4+ high (BSI-DSZ-CC-0479) - http://www.bsi.de/zertifiz/zert/reporte/0479a.pdf

In addition, MaskTech is about to finalize two other Common Criteria certifications for other ePassport and national ID solutions in its portfolio.

About MaskTech

MaskTech develops and distributes multiapplication smart card operating systems for contact-based, contactless and dual interface high security chipsets and the appropriate middleware. Our product range (operating systems) covers the entire range of processor-based smart card ICs with focus on eID applications. MTCOS has been ported to the latest state of the art hardware, e.g., Infineon SLE66, ST Microelectronics ST19NR, ATMEL AT90RCFT, NXP - SmartMX series all EAL 5+ certified, and SST - Theseus Platinum/Titanium flash-based solutions. The cryptographic chipsets are used within the following market segments: electronic and machine-readable travel documents (ePassport) , national id (european citizen card, PIV), drivers license, social security, residence permit, registered traveller, health care, NFC (near field communication), micropayment and more. The company's products conform to the strict quality certification standards as defined in CMM and Common Criteria.

This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they ever materialize or prove incorrect, could cause the results of MaskTech and its consolidated subsidiaries to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including the expected development, performance or rankings of products or services; statements of expectation or belief; and any statement of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. MaskTech assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

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