Wave Issue 0511 3/18/05 Article 5-01

***Iridian Announces Country-Wide Iris Recognition Deployment in
the Middle East

MOORESTOWN, N.J.
March 15, 2005

Iridian Technologies has announced that its Proof Positive iris
recognition technology will be deployed on a country-wide basis
in an unnamed country in the Middle East. The deployment will
initially include passports, visas, and watch lists for border
protection and law enforcement. Potential future applications
include drivers' licenses and health care. At least one million
people will be enrolled in the initial phase. The deployment will
include over one hundred two-eye stationary iris cameras; other
interoperable cameras are expected to be utilized in the future
including the latest portable cameras from IrisGuard and Iridian.

This project represents the second country-wide deployment of
iris recognition in the Middle East. In 2004, the United Arab
Emirates deployed an iris-based expellee watch list in all their
land, sea and air ports. With that system, they have apprehended
over 29,000 people with fraudulent travel documents trying to re-
enter the country under different identities.

Iridian has experienced accelerating adoption of its technology
over the past two years with installations in the Canadian
CANPASS program, the US/Canada NEXUS Air program, the U.S.
Registered Traveler program, a United Nations refugee
repatriation program and immigration programs in the Netherlands,
the UK, Germany and Japan.

The Proof Positive hardware and software certification program
from Iridian Technologies confirms that iris recognition cameras
and software solutions meet critical standards for performance,
interoperability, safety, security, scalability, usability and
reliability. Certification includes a series of formal audits and
evaluations, including conformance to Iridian's PrivateID and
KnoWho application programming interfaces (APIs), data formats,
encryption, and countermeasures. Proof Positive certified cameras
are interoperable with other certified cameras, not only from the
same vendor, but from other vendors as well. Certified cameras
easily interface with Iridian's KnoWho server software for
maximum performance in searches against millions of records.

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