Vordel's TalkXML to be included as value-added B2B offering to theWISekey PKI

[Hugh Carroll <hugh.carroll@vordel.com>]

For Immediate Release

Vordel’s TalkXML to be included as value-added B2B offering to
	the WISekey Public Key Infrastructure service

Geneva, Switzerland – 27 November 2000 - Vordel, a global provider
of XML based cohesion technologies for eBusiness today announced that
the latest version of its TalkXML product suite has been made interoperable
with the WISeKey Global PKI Infrastructure. The announcement was made
at the Wiseworld 2000 event being hosted in collaboration with the
International Telecommunication Union, at the International Conference
Centre in Geneva.

The WISeworld 2000 event is an annual event organized by the World
Internet Secure Key WISeKey, the world's largest Public Key Infrastructure
and Global Common ROOT service provider, based in Switzerland. As a member
of the WISekey expert group, Vordel is meeting with leading members of the
WISeKey Expert Group, representatives from Government organizations and
private industry sectors worldwide. Companies associated with Vordel at this
event include Vordel partners Baltimore Technologies, Rainbow, WorldCom and
other leading players in the security field such as Oracle, OCTREE
Technologies, Valicert, UNNEt, Hewlett Packard, WISekey, Celocom and
Datamatics.

Less than a year after the ITU-WISeKey-WTC Geneva signed a partnership
agreement, deployment of e-business infrastructure has started in more
than 100 countries funded by a US$4 million in-kind contribution made by
WISeKey to a Trust Fund set up under the agreement. The agreement is part
of the Electronic Commerce for Developing Countries (EC-DC) project of ITU,
which aims at enabling developing countries to use existing infrastructures
and services to join the digital economy through non-exclusive partnerships
with the industry.

Vordel’s TalkXML solution will provide WISeKey with a world-leading
value-added service to its PKI based offering.

"The combined WISekey PKI  solution provides an extensive security
framework and Vordel’s TalkXML product suite delivers business focused
solutions that meet real business requirements", said David Ryan, CEO,
Vordel. The fact that Vordel’s solution is now interoperable with the
WISeKey PKI security platform provides us with an excellent opportunity
to further our expansion into the provision of cohesion technologies to
leading institutions in the field of telecommunications in over 180
member countries.”

Malcolm Hutchinson, CEO of WISeKey reinforced this opinion, stating:
"Vordel is providing a serious added-value solution to secure B2B
transactions within secure trade infrastructures by marrying the trust of
PKI with the interoperability features of XML. The TalkXML application will
be of interest to many of our customers, enabling them to send and
receive XML-based sensitive business documents which have been
signed and encrypted within the WISeKey Root Certificate Authority."


About Vordel

Vordel is a leading provider of XML-based solutions and services to
enable cohesion for eBusiness. Vordel's product range, TalkXML, delivers
a powerful suite of applications that enables an enterprise to easily
establish secure internet communication channels to any organisation
in a business network.

The most significant issue for companies striving to build an eBusiness
capability is that of legacy and the integration of disparate systems.
Vordel offers XML-based products that will easily interface with existing
systems and deliver and receive secure, authentic data to any digital
channel.

Vordel offers cohesion technologies and services or "the glue" to link
existing systems and people to new digital business channels.

Vordel's products and solutions are designed to assist companies in
extracting additional value from their IT infrastructure and to easily
extend their business over internal and external networks. Vordel is the
cohesion partner to enable existing IT systems communicate in order to
capture the opportunity for secure electronic business.

Vordel is headquartered in Dublin, with sales offices in the USA and UK;
currently employs 40 people and has partners in Ireland, UK, Switzerland
and the US.

About WISeKey
WISeKey is a privately owned company based in Geneva, Switzerland that
provides Root Certification Authority services to Certification Authorities
worldwide. The trustworthiness of WISeKey's services is based on their
carefully orchestrated security practices and procedures used exclusively
for the issuance of high-security certificates to Certification Authorities
and other entities that form part of the operational services of the
globally interoperable PKIs below it. As part of WISeKey's security
procedures, the Global Root Private Cryptographic Key used to issue
certificates is stored in an off-line high-security facility deep in the
Swiss Alps.

With such high-security infrastructure in place, WISeKey has signed a
partnership agreement with the International Telecommunications Union
(ITU) to promote the deployment of PKIs in 188 countries with the
intention of expanding the use of secure electronic communications.  In
doing so, WISeKey is also providing e-commerce solutions based on the
mass usage of certification and PKI enabled applications to secure the
Internet for e-business. This approach changes the entire dynamics of
how the Internet is used and will propel its transactional-based usage
into the 21st century.

For further information visit www.wisekey.com.

Press Contact at Vordel:				Press Contact at WISeKey:
Hugh Carroll					Markus Leutert
+353 1 215 3333					+41 22 929 57 57
info@vordel.com					markus@wisekey.ch