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  BALTIMORE TECHNOLOGIES AND OPENWAVE TEAM TO BRING INCREASED SECURITY TO WIRELESS TRANSACTIONS
  

  Baltimore Telepathy Chosen to Provide Security for Openwave's Market-Leading WAP Microbrowser, UP.Link Server and Enterprise Proxy products
 
DUBLIN, Ireland and REDWOOD CITY - December 11, 2000 -- Baltimore Technologies (NASDAQ:BALT; London:BLM), a global leader in e-security, and Openwave Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: OPWV), the combination of Phone.com and Software.com, today announced they have entered into an agreement to integrate Baltimore's wireless e-security offering with Openwave's market leading range of WAP products to accelerate the adoption of trusted wireless transactions.

As part of this agreement, links to the Baltimore Telepathy wireless certificate service will be integrated into the Openwave? UP.Link? Server (WAP Gateway) and the recently announced Openwave Secure Enterprise Proxy. This agreement allows Openwave's global customer base of leading mobile operators to have the opportunity to use Baltimore Telepathy wireless e-security products and services.

Baltimore is a Premier Root Certificate supplier for the Openwave UP.Browser® microbrowser, the leading WAP browser on the wireless handset market. By embedding Baltimore's root digital certificates into the Openwave UP.Browser, Openwave's wireless network operator customers are able to offer wireless services with additional layers of security and authentication for those subscribers engaging in wireless transactions such as m-commerce and m-banking.

"Our wireless network operator customers are rapidly expanding their wireless Internet services and recognise the added value that enhanced security brings to their businesses. The Baltimore Telepathy range of leading wireless e-security solutions offers a high level of trust and end-to-end security making them a natural strong partner in this next evolution of trusted services," commented Jeff Damir, group vice president of the Device Product Group for Openwave.

Using Baltimore's wireless e-security, Openwave's customers can easily request and install WTLS Server Certificates on the UP.Link and Secure Enterprise Proxy, providing an additional layer of standards-based end-to-end security for the delivery of wireless Internet content and applications to mobile handsets. The co-operation with Baltimore addresses next-level security requirements of application developers of mobile banking and mobile commerce services as well as corporate intranet applications that can be safely extended outside a company's firewall to a mobile workforce.

"As the wireless Internet becomes more important and accessible, we must ensure that service providers and consumers have confidence in the security of this new medium. Through our relationship with Openwave, Baltimore can extend an important level of mobile trust to the majority of WAP users worldwide. In addition, Openwave and Baltimore will work closely together to drive the adoption of a secure and trusted environment for mobile commerce and payment transactions," commented Paddy Holahan, EVP of Global Marketing at Baltimore Technologies.

This collaboration further demonstrates Openwave's continued commitment to providing enhanced security capabilities to its customers, and leverages Baltimore's experience in standards-based, scaleable security solutions together with its worldwide expertise and resources. This compliments Openwave's announcement of the Secure Enterprise Proxy and enables end-to-end security can be easily established by phone users with trusted services.


About Openwave
 
Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) is the worldwide leader of open IP-based communication infrastructure software and applications. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information, please visit www.openwave.com.

About Baltimore Telepathy
 
Baltimore's Telepathy solutions are targeted at e-Commerce companies, Mobile Operators and software Developers to deploy complete end-to-end security solutions for mobile commerce. It enables businesses to provide new services to mobile customers by securing communications and transactions from the end-user to a company's e-commerce and IT systems. Telepathy includes security solutions for mobile devices, network operators and e-businesses.


About Baltimore Technologies
 
Baltimore Technologies develops and markets security products and services to enable companies to develop trusted, secure systems for e-business, the Internet and mobile commerce. Its products include a wide range of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) products and services, wireless e-security solutions, cryptographic tool-kits, access control & authorization, content security (MIMEsweeper products) security applications and hardware cryptographic devices. Baltimore's global professional services organization offers a wide variety of consulting, training and deployment support to its customers worldwide. Baltimore Technologies markets and sells its solutions worldwide directly and through the TrustedWorld™ channel program. TrustedWorld includes many of the world's leading technology companies and a wide variety of global, regional and local business alliance partners.

Baltimore Technologies employs over 1000 people worldwide and operates from over 30 cities, with headquarters in Dublin, Ireland; London, UK; Boston, USA and Sydney, Australia. Baltimore Technologies plc is a public company with dual listings on NASDAQ (BALT) and the London Stock Exchange (BLM). For further information and press releases on Baltimore Technologies, please visit www.baltimore.com.


Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements
 
This release contains forward-looking statements relating to expectations, plans or prospects for Openwave Systems Inc. that are based upon the current expectations and beliefs of Openwave's management and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward looking statements. In particular, the following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements: (a) risks specifically associated with the ability to make changes in business strategy, development plans and product offerings to respond to the needs of our current, new and potential customers, suppliers and strategic partners; and (b) competition and technological changes and developments including new methods for circumventing security measures; and (c) general risks of the Internet and wireless and wireline telecommunications sectors.

For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the risk factors discussed in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including but not limited to Phone.com's and Software.com's respective Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2000, Phone.com's and Software.com's most recently filed Annual Reports on Form 10-K, and Phone.com's registration statement on Form S-4 as declared effective on September 28, 2000. All documents also are available through the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov or from Openwave's Web site at www.openwave.com. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this document.Baltimore Technologies, Telepathy, KeySteps, TrustedWorld, PKIWorld and Baltimore product names including UniCERT, UniCERT Options, MailSecure, KeyTools, SolutionsPlus, SureWare, MIMEsweeper are all trademarks of Baltimore Technologies plc and Content Technologies Limited.


 
Openwave, the Openwave logo and the family of terms carrying the "UP." prefix are trademarks of Openwave Systems Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

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Contact Openwave Worldwide Public Relations

Baltimore Technologies (EMEA)
Evanna Kearins
+353 1 881 6405
ekearins@baltimore.com

Baltimore Technologies (US)
Tracy Ross
+1 650 245 8466
tross@baltimore.com

Baltimore Technologies (APAC)
Antonella Giardino
+ 612 9409 0344
agiardino@baltimore.com

  



 
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