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The WISeKey-Microsoft Trust Platform based on Windows Server 2003 fastens the deployment of Public Key Infrastructure technologies in the Asia Pacific region

Singapore (ots)

With widespread adoption of the new legal
framework guaranteeing Asia Pacific (APAC)-wide recognition of
electronic signatures, Microsoft Corporation and WISeKey today
announced an unprecedented growth in the deployment of PKI (public
key infrastructure framework), a jointly developed digital signature
solution based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, in APAC. Countries
that have deployed PKI successfully include China (Sinotrans) and
Korea (World Trade center).  This follows the announcement in Europe
where WiseKey collaborated with Microsoft EMEA to deliver a secure
Trusted PKI Platform for e-government applications
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2004/aug04/08-16wisekey.a
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"Governments in the APAC region have recognised the need to change
their procedures to provide services and information centered on the
citizen. By harnessing the advances in technology - making services
more accessible through multiple channels and more responsive by
providing joined up services - the citizen has access to information
relating to services through a unique point of contact," said Peter
Moore, Managing Director - Public Sector, Asia Pacific, Microsoft
Corporation.
"To address the resultant issues and challenges raised by the move
to Information Age government, WISeKey and Microsoft have developed a
public sector strategy that brings their combined technologies,
applications and skills together to enable all tiers of Public
Services to move towards electronic government" he added.
The WISeKey-Microsoft E-Government Solution based on Windows
Server 2003 is a suite of applications providing a breadth of
functionality with the double objective of communicating actively to
the citizen or business as well as to gather knowledge about the
citizen or business within the community, and then use this to
provide a better degree of service provision.
The "secret" of WISeKey is its institutional framework endorsed by
International Organizations, Governments and Standard Bodies, its
location within a neutral country (Switzerland), its unique policies
oriented towards security and neutrality across the world and its
leveraging of this position by using Microsoft Windows Server 2003 as
a digital certificate authority (CA) for the secure and mass
deployment of digital certificates. In combination with WISeKey's
overall approach, the CA built into Windows Server, originally
designed to manage end-user licenses, can issue digital certificates
for a fraction of the cost of a traditional certificate authority
systems and providers.
According to WISeKey Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Carlos
Moreira, "The combination of Windows Server 2003 and WISeKey
technology can be implemented for less than $20,000, creating a full
identity infrastructure which until recently would have cost $1
million or more."
Several Asia Pacific countries are presently implementing this
technology such as Sinotrans in China for a nation-wide E-Portal
using the WISeKey-Microsoft Trusted Platform and Federated Digital ID
to allow a Single Sign On access to its numerous services and
portals. Also at Vitranet in Vietnam where WISeKey is assisting in
developing a National Public Key Infrastructure using Vitranet as the
Certification Authority. The World Trade Center E-Commerce Platform
developed in cooperation with World Trade Centers in the Asia Pacific
region and in particular the World Trade center Seoul and WTC in
China is another example where WISekey Trusted Platform is used to
establish a secure e-marketplace allowing World Trade Centers and
Trade promotion Organizations to trade securely and perform their
Trade facilitation activities.  In the medium to long term, the
Microsoft-WISeKey partnership aims to provide Asia Pacific customers
the core security upon which the deployment of secure computing
platforms will be undertaken by providing manufacturers, service
providers, organizations, application developers and others to manage
digital certificates for persons, organizations and devices.
Full version of this article at:
   http://www.wisekey.com/pressrelease/mswkasiapacific.htm

Contact:

Sanjay Nair
Edelman Singapore
Phone: +65/6733-1110 ext 208
E-Mail: sanjay.nair@edelman.com

Charlene Chian
Microsoft Asia Pacific
Phone: +65/6433-5672
E-Mail: cchian@microsoft.com

Daniel Ybarra
WISekey
E-Mail: Daniel@wisekey.ch

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