2002

Contacts:

Scott Crenshaw NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc. (617) 948-9138 screnshaw@ntru.com

Gregg Moskowitz Blue Spike (212) 725-3974 gregg@bluespike.com

NTRU and Blue Spike Partner For Digital Music Security

Boston, MA -- January 19, 2000 -- NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc. , a creator of a secure public key cryptography system, and Blue Spike, Inc., the leading developer of secure digital watermarking applications today announced a partnership that will incorporate NTRU's public key encryption technology with Blue Spike's leading-edge "end-to-end" music security solution.

"NTRU combines high security with exceptional speed, and lets us demonstrate a complete solution to the needs of music copyright owners," said Scott Moskowitz, President of Blue Spike. "We pioneered secure digital watermarking over a period of many years in cooperative efforts with the music industry and are happy to launch the first of a number of valuable technical solutions to the digital copy problem commonly known as piracy"

NTRU is an innovative public key cryptography system developed by a team of world-renowned mathematicians and cryptographers. NTRU provides the fastest and most-efficient public key cryptography solution -- at all security levels. At the heart of NTRU is a collection of mathematical concepts based on manipulating lists of very small integers. This allows NTRU to achieve high speeds with the use of minimal computing power.

"Blue Spike is developing an innovative music security solution," said Scott Crenshaw, NTRU's Vice President of Business Development. "We are pleased to be an integral part of their package. Blue Spike is combining the best components for watermarking, encryption and compression to deliver a complete solution to the music distribution industry."

Blue Spike is offering a complete "end-to-end" music security solution encompassing packaged media and electronic delivery. This is the first implementation of an exciting new area of security-- "trusted transactions." The system allows copyright owners to protect their products from piracy while maintaining for consumers all of the flexibility they have come to expect from their current music libraries. The system also allows music producers to develop and securely deliver innovative music packages, including audio enhancements, text, images, and video. The system is scalable for use on a range of products, from portable players to personal computers to high-end stereo equipment.

About Blue Spike

Blue Spike is the leading provider of secure digital watermarking and content protection technologies based on an extensive patent portfolio. Blue Spike's technology enables owners of multimedia content such as music labels, movie studios, banking and financial institutions and government agencies to establish ownership over digital copies, and to identify legitimacy of digital information that otherwise would appear to be exact, perfect copies. Its digital watermarking application is the only provably secure watermarking system that makes use of cryptographic keys, which are used to authenticate the digital asset. Blue Spike's "trusted transactions" represent a new era for bridging cryptographic security with human trust. Trusted transactions are a leading contender for democratizing security for all transactions. For further information, see http://www.bluespike.com/.

About NTRU Cryptosystems

NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc. makes the world's fastest secure public key cryptography solutions operating over 100 times faster than competitive systems including those from Certicom Corporation (Toronto:CIC) and RSA Security (Nasdaq:RSAS) at equivalent security levels. NTRU is the best public key cryptography solution for wireless data communications, digital music and video distribution, e-commerce and embedded applications. Strategic investors include Sony Corporation. For more information, see http://www.ntru.com/ or call NTRU at 888.346.NTRU or 617.948.9138. NTRU is pronounced "En' true."

NTRU, F@stWTLS, the NTRU logo and the F@stWTLS logo are trademarks of NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc. Portions of NTRU's system are the subject of pending patent applications in the US and internationally.

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