10 OATH Member Companies show the Benefits of OATH-Developed Technology Using Numerous Authentication Products and Form Factors

WASHINGTON CROSSING, PA, May 22, 2007 – OATH, the initiative for Open AuTHentication and a leading proponent  of industry-backed standards for royalty-free open authentication, announced at the Interop 2007 Conference that the organization will hold the first ever authentication Interoperability demonstration using OATH-developed technologies that advance the goal of industry-backed standards for royalty-free open authentication.  The demonstration will be conducted at the OATH booth #91 at Interop 2007in Mandalay Bay Convention Center.

Ten OATH member companies are participating in the demonstration, including: ActiveIdentity, Citala, Diversinet, Gemalto, Incard Technologies, Ironkey, nCryptone, Portwise, SanDisk and Verisign. Tokens from nCryptone, Incard, Portwise, SanDisk and Citala will show the plug-and-play nature of OATH-based authentication, while products from ActivIdentity, Diversinet, Gemalto and Ironkey are being implemented into an nCryptone authentication server.

“We are proud of having the opportunity of using our authentication server in order to promote the compatibility of other OATH members' tokens with the consortium's standards,” said Pierre Lombardy, CEO of nCryptone. “It is an acknowledgement of the nC Server, but it is more importantly the confirmation of our strong commitment to interoperability norms which have already been integrated into our own tokens.”

“OATH continues to make enormous strides in the development of authentication technologies that will shape the face of identity management and endpoint security in the years ahead,” said Don Malloy, director of new business development at InCard Technologies and OATH’s marketing chairman.  “Interop makes an ideal forum to demonstrate the interoperability of OATH member products, whether its smart cards, soft tokens, USB tokens or biometrics.  We invite those attendees interested in reducing fraud and securing strong authentication to see how OATH-based products which are backed by real world standards work in the real world.”

About the Initiative for Open AuTHentication
The Initiative for Open AuTHentication (OATH) is the industry’s leading collaboration of device, platform and application companies, and end user customers of authentication technologies. OATH participants hope to foster use of strong authentication across networks, devices and applications. OATH participants work collectively to facilitate standards and build reference architecture for open authentication while evangelizing the benefits of strong interoperable authentication in a networked world. As OATH grows, the organization is actively seeking feedback and technology contributions from end-user participants who share a common vision for open authentication technology and the products that provide this important measure of security.

OATH is dedicated to helping customers reduce the cost and complexity of deploying strong authentication within enterprises, and across the Internet. Since its formation, OATH’s membership includes security industry leaders from token manufacturers, platform vendors, smartcard providers, and security services companies.  End user companies are joining OATH to add their voice and ideas towards the goal of open authentication.

To join OATH and to see a list of its current membership, go to: http://www.openauthentication.org/membership.asp.

Access the enrollment form by visiting: http://www.openauthentication.org/membership_form.asp.

OATH technical documents including internet-draft specifications can be located at: http://www.openauthentication.org/resources.asp.

To learn more about OATH, e-mail info@openauthentication.org or visit http://www.openauthentication.org/.

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