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VIAQUO ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF VIASEAL VIASEAL 1.1

ViaSeal 1.1 Contains Improvements Such as Persistent Authentication, an API Interface, Autoprovisioning, Bulk Encryption and Rich Media Streaming Capability.

SAN JOSE, CALIF., (November 15, 2002)- Viaquo Corporation announced the immediate availability of ViaSeal 1.1, an improved version of ViaSeal 1.0, first released in the early part of 2002.

The ViaSeal 1.1 version adds substantial capability to the product line, including:

-A persistent authentication control panel that allows users to decide how often they need to authenticate to their own system- anything from every few minutes to once a day.

- Rich media encryption and decryption support, so customers can lock and unlock streaming audio and video files.

- Autoprovisioning capability that allows a system administrator to access LDAP directories to help in automatically registering new ViaSeal users to the centralized ViaSeal server system during initial system setup.

- Client API capability that allows ViaSeal customers to build custom applications that can call the ViaSeal Client to invoke various functions, including encrypt & decrypt, block (streaming) encrypt & decrypt, authenticate user, credential selection, domain switching, and multi-thread safe for block encryption.

- Command line encryption for bulk locking of large libraries of files, as well as the ability to shift-click on several files in a directory, apply the same set of credentials, and lock them all in one step.

-Localization support, including support for traditional and simplified Chinese.

Viaquo's ViaSeal 1.1 distributed access permissioning software is unlike any other access control system because its simple distributed architecture can be quickly deployed and centrally managed across any-sized corporate network. ViaSeal allows users to lock any file and store or transmit it anywhere, knowing that only people with company-authorized ViaSeal accounts containing appropriate access permissions will be able to unlock them.

ViaSeal is a role-based one-to-many access control system for digital files of all kinds. A ViaSeal system using CKM Technology licensed from TecSec, Inc., issues both unlock (decrypt) and lock (encrypt) access permissions called credentials to users through a central web site. Users have access to their credentials in a "security profile" located on their system that enables them to lock and unlock files independently from the central site, up until the security profile times out and they must log in and download a new copy of their security profile. Typically, anyone can receive a file in the mail or access it over the web, but only users with the appropriate credentials can access it- to anyone else, the file is just so much digital garbage.

"With ViaSeal, you can now protect the data instead of protecting the channel. This not only makes it harder for attackers to steal anything once they have broken through your perimeter defenses, it also protects you from internal users, statistically the most likely attackers, and the ones hardest to protect against," says Viaquo's CEO, Bill Sweet."We took a hard look at ViaSeal and liked what we saw," said Steve Redmond, CEO of Montreal-based Griffon Technologies, a reseller of ViaSeal 1.1. "Our customers have repeatedly let us know they wanted simple, easy-to-use security tools to protect their data, and ViaSeal is the easiest to use of all. It protects company files no matter where they are stored or how they are transmitted, yet a simple double-click on a protected data file and it opens in its application- but only for the right people." Redmond added that ViaSeal is also easy to deploy because it does not require digital signatures and can work with or without existing email, firewalls, VPNs, PKI systems and network architectures.

"We signed up as resellers because we were looking for a security access system that is centrally controlled and give the security administrators in the company the ability to modify permissions and turn people on or off in the system quickly, yet be distributed so that users can access files independently of the central system," said Philip Tam, CEO of iTrusChina, a Verisign subsidiary in Bejing. "With ViaSeal there is no need for a centralized authentication process to access files since the authentication is built into both the credentials (permissions) that are pre-distributed to users, as well as permissions requirements contained within the encrypted files themselves.

"A number of resellers have signed up to market ViaSeal 1.1," says Franz Ressel, VP of Marketing and Sales for Viaquo. "We have already signed up Griffon Technologies, ChinaDNS, iTrusChina, and Telindus, and more are coming in every month, especially in overseas markets where the economies are booming." To view the ViaSeal product demo, visit the Viaquo Web site at www.viaquo.com.

About Viaquo Corporation:

Silicon Valley-based Viaquo Corporation is a new distributed access permissioning company chaired by venture technologist Gil Amelio and backed by Sienna Ventures, VenGlobal Capital Fund and Hsieh Investment Limited Partners. Viaquo's ViaSeal Distributed access permissioning platform enables ISPs, content vendors, enterprises and exchanges to seal and tamper-proof digital packages of rich media or sensitive enterprise information for mass distribution over the Internet or the corporate enterprise. ViaSeal is an extremely easy-to-use one-to-many access permissioning platform created for precise control of enterprise-wide information that is scalable to millions of users.For more information, visit Viaquo at http://www.viaquo.com/.