Released on: November 15, 2007, 5:02 am

Press Release Author: Voronina Natalia / BioLink

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: BioLink announces engagement in the design and implementation
of the Electronic Passport System in Senegal involving fingerprinting of the
Senegalese crossing the country's borders. The ICAO-compliant e-passport used as a
travel document will bear the embedded microchip in its cover containing the
biometric identifiers of its holder, thus adding more authenticity to this
identifying document.

Press Release Body: The Republic of Senegal (West Africa) is another African country
that launches the e-passport project complying with the stipulations mandated by the
ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) for machine-readable travel
documents protecting the privacy of users against identity theft. In addition,
e-passports assist in streamlining the immigration activities and keeping records of
visitors coming to the country in real time.

The system is expected to cover 3 Mio citizens of Senegal. It will operate in one
main passport operation center in Dakar and eight regional passport operation
centers in the Republic of Senegal. In addition, the system will be spread worldwide
with another eight overseas passport operation centers in embassies of Senegal in
various countries. The Dakar International Airport will be equipped with four
Immigration Autogates enhanced with BioLink biometrics for safe, swift and
effortless flow of passengers exiting and arriving to the country.

BioLink is responsible for the biometric component of the system, namely for
managing and matching the biometric credentials, such as the passport holders' live
fingerprints captured by a biometric scanner. For this project, BioLink supplied the
biometric management server and 8 biometric matchers (2 quad-core processors each)
intended to do the fast fingerprint comparison within 24 hours. The biometric
matching is performed based on BioLink's proprietary fingerprint matching algorithms
supporting the key international and industry standards, such as ISO/IEC, ANSI/NIST,
ANSI INCITS and WSQ. IRIS Corporation Berhad, BioLink's frequent partner in
nationwide identification projects, is in charge of providing a fully integrated and
highly secure solution for the enrollment, personalization and issuance of
e-passport to the Senegalese as well as the appropriate support services within the
period of 20 years.

Piotr Pertsov, Director of Business Development in BioLink, says: "We are involved
in this large identification project thanks to lasting relationship with IRIS.
However, BioLink has sufficient experience in cooperating with African governments,
and we are quite confident we'll give this project the best care and attention until
the customer is completely satisfied."

About BioLink

BioLink, a leading provider of biometric identification solutions, develops,
manufactures, and markets advanced fingerprint biometric products. The Company's
products and services form the core of biometric identification and authentication
solutions for all scale civil identification, access control and information
security applications. BioLink's solutions provide the optimal total cost of
ownership in the industry and are being implemented by corporate and government
entities worldwide. For additional information, please visit BioLink's web site at
http://www.biolinksolutions.com.

About IRIS

IRIS Corporation Berhad is a global security solution provider with core expertise
in the area of securing government security documents i.e. National ID and Passport.
IRIS pioneered the world's first electronic passport and national multi-application
smart card with the implementation of the Malaysian Electronic Passport in March
1998 and MyKAD - the Malaysian Government Multi Purpose Card in April 2001. These
technologies are deployed in many countries across the Asia, Middle East and Africa
regions. IRIS also provides a full range of smart cards readers, integrated
terminals, card personalization equipment and biometrics scanner to complement the
application of its smart card solutions. For additional information, go to
http://www.iris.com.my.

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