For Immediate Release

Contact: press@[Client Company].com

Unbreakable E-Mail Encryption Company Enters Asian Market

[CITY] – [DATE] – In an online world made hazardous by the malicious interception and surveillance of personal electronic communications, [City]-based [Client Company].com is positioned to become the first provider of unbreakable encrypted Web-based email to launch in the Asian markets.

Spearheading its Asian push with secure messaging offered in both traditional and simplified Chinese, [Client Company] adds to its growing family of multilingual Web sites supported by live-help customer service in English, Spanish, German and soon Russian.  The company’s Chinese-version open-source Linux mail client complies with a distribution program backed by the Chinese government, but the Linux version will integrate with [Client Company]’s secure servers.  This end-to-end security is designed to protect the personal communications of a new block of customers in an otherwise risky Internet environment.

In contrast to paper mail, which at least offers some measure of protection against interception, the international flow of email is extraordinarily susceptible to surveillance and tampering.  While hacker-criminals intensify efforts to intercept the transmission of personal and financial data, governments worldwide are instituting blanket surveillance over virtually all electronic communications  [More info: www.[Client Company].com > Press Room].

Determined to defeat any and all efforts to intrude into the personal and business affairs of its clients, [Client Company] has built a foolproof encryption framework.  The proprietary system is based on Virtual Matrix Encryption (VME), encrypted with four symmetric 512-bit keys delivering 2048 bits strong protection and 3072-bit asymmetric public key.

“What we offer is an end-to-end system so secure, so impregnable, that the most sophisticated intelligence agencies in the world would not be able to break the code,” says [Company Exec], [Client Company]’s Senior VP of Development.  He hastens to add, “But I use that only as a benchmark example.  We are not in the business of providing a communications infrastructure for the plotting of crimes.”

According to the company’s press pages, the [Client Company] system would be of no benefit to criminals simply because the service is not free and requires legitimate, verifiable user registration.  Explains [Exec Last Name], “Crooks and terrorists are not going to offer up a credit card and take the time to establish an identity-specific account with [Client Company].  Why would they?”   He explains, “Like a spammer, a lawbreaker will simply open an anonymous free e-mail account with Hotmail or Yahoo, or some obscure no-cost service, send a coded message from a public computer and abandon the account.”

[Client Company].com can be accessed anywhere in the world using either Netscape or the Internet Explorer browser.  After entering a user name and four unique passwords, a user-interface opens which looks and acts like a mainstream email program, such as Outlook or Eudora.  A multitude of easy-to-use push button features include spell check, tracking options, file handling, spam filters, attachment upload, HTML editor and more.  [See www.[Client Company].com > Interface Screenshot]

Incoming and outgoing messages can be deleted or saved, but unlike highly-vulnerable standard domain servers, messages saved on the [Client Company] servers remain permanently encrypted – forever safe from hacking and surveillance.

According to [Client Company] management, by [DATE] service and support in traditional and simplified Chinese will be fully operational.  Language-specific sites serving all major Asian markets are expected to be online before the close of 2002.

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