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April 15, 2003

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PostX Announces Plans to Implement Liberty Alliance Phase 2 Specifications into PostX Enterprise

The Identity Federation Framework will allow companies that implement PostX Solutions to enable single sign-on among customers, employees, and partners

Cupertino, CA – April 15, 2003 -- PostX, the leader in ensuring the secure electronic delivery of information vital to business and customer relationships and an associate member of the Liberty Alliance, today announced plans to implement the Liberty Alliance Phase 2 specifications into the PostX Enterprise platform, which will provide an open and commonly accepted platform for companies and other organizations to build interoperable identity-based Web services.

The Liberty Alliance Phase 2 specifications will enable the promotion of standards within its growing customer base. As relationships become more complex between partners, it is critical to have an agreed upon standard for federated identity, to protect businesses, but more importantly, to improve customer productivity.

"We are pleased to show our support and commitment to the Liberty Alliance," said Thampy Thomas, CEO and Chairman of PostX. "The Phase 2 specifications will enable us to provide businesses secure delivery of email to their customers, partners and employees. It sets the standard for what a secure messaging solution needs to deliver in today's enterprise environment."

"Liberty Alliance, through its broad membership and high industry profile, has clearly established itself as an important group addressing Web services security through federated identity standards," said James Kobielus, senior analyst at Burton Group. "Concurrently, several industry vendors publicly announced commitments to implement the Liberty Version 2 specifications in their products over the coming year. PostX's support for Liberty Version 2 is encouraging, because it shows deepening vendor support for the standard throughout diverse product niches, such as secure messaging."

The Liberty Alliance Project today announced availability of a public draft of the Phase 2 specifications, which introduce the Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF). ID-WSF outlines the technical components necessary to build interoperable identity-based web services that meet specific business needs and also protect the privacy and security of users' shared information.

Phase 2 also introduces the Identity Services Interface Specifications (ID-SIS), a collection of specifications that will provide a standard way for companies to build interoperable services like registration profiles, contact books, or calendar, geo-location or alert services

Finally, Phase 2 updates the first set of Liberty specifications (originally known as version 1.1), and uses them as the foundation for the Identity Federation Framework (ID-FF), which provide standards for simplified sign-on and federation or "linking" among disparate accounts within a group of businesses that have established relationships. Please visit www.projectliberty.org for more details on this announcement.

About PostX Corporation
PostX ensures secure electronic delivery of information vital to business and customer relationships. PostX delivers significant cost savings, and organizations benefit from an increase in effective communications with their employees, partners, and customers.

PostX is headquartered in the U.S. in Cupertino, CA. and is funded by Mayfield Fund, Alloy Ventures and Charles Schwab & Company. PostX partners and customers include the United States Postal Service (USPS), IBM, VISA, Bell & Howell, Children’s Hospital, the Mayo Clinic, ABN Amro, Charles Schwab & Co, J.P. Morgan Chase, Xpedite and DST Output.

For Media Contact:

Michelle Van Jura
Fusion PR for PostX Corporation
310.481.1431, Ext. 15
michelle.vanjura@fusionpr.com

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