December 15, 2001:

TimeCertain, LLC, the company that provides technology stabilizing digital reality, and Eracom Technologies, Inc., a leading producer which develops and sells no-compromise IT security products providing transaction security and privacy of information, announced a strategic alliance providing cost-effective, highly scalable, secure trusted local digital timestamping and audit solutions.

TimeCertain's Chronologics® TimeServer is secured by eracomīs new protectserver orange HSM, which enables hardware-secured time-stamping operations, based on a local tamper-proof time-source combined with a secure high performance digital signature capability. Available on either Linux or Solaris(tm) platforms, a single TimeStamp Server can generate up to 1000 ETSI and RFC 3161 compliant timestamps per second. Multiple servers can be clustered to provide in excess of 40,000 transactions per second. TimeCertain selected eracomīs protecttoolkit c for technology development and integration into its Chronologics® TimeServer because of its reliability, advanced security, flexibility and performance. "A local, secure trusted timestamp stabilizes digital reality, provides auditability and immunity from content challenge for any digital data, and thereby provides protection from potential legal liability based on content challenges. When designing our latest Chronologics® TimeServer, we found that eracomīs protectserver orange HSM and protecttoolkit c met security as well as scalability requirements for our key management, cryptographic acceleration, signing operations and local time source protection", said Steven Teppler, CEO of TimeCertain, LLC. The combination of the TimeCertain and eracom results in a highly secure, scalable, cost-effective solution for business, government and other applications requiring that their digital data be immune to content challenge, and enables TimeCertain to offer an insurance backed transactional warranty.

About TimeCertain:

TimeCertain provides technology that stabilizes digital reality. Utilizing patents pending technology, TimeCertain's solutions offer cost effective, high volume digital timestamping and audit technology. Our insurance backed warranty for commercial deployments protects against business losses resulting from technology compromises.

About eracom

eracom has manufactured and supplied cryptographic hardware and software products for uncompromising security solutions for more than 20 years. As a pioneer in the IT security industry, eracom provides worldwide IT security solutions to a diverse mix of markets including banking, finance, government, defense, stock market and media. eracom has become a leading player within the rapidly growing IT security market and supports a broad range of Blue Chip customers from a network of offices around the world.