(Market Wire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) GRENOBLE, FRANCE, December 5 / MARKET WIRE/ --

Who/What:

At the IP 2007 Conference in Grenoble, France, Certicom Corp. (TSX: CIC)
and Kilopass Technology Inc., a leading CMOS Logic Non-Volatile Memory
(NVM) Intellectual Property (IP) supplier, will present on Hardware
Security Requirements for Embedded Encryption Key Storage. The technical
presentation will be given by Craig Rawlings of Kilopass Technology Inc.
and Mike Bursell of Certicom.

Background Information

In November, Kilopass and Certicom announced a partnership to deliver
comprehensive security for High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP)
applications. Certicom KeyInject(TM) is being integrated into the new
Kilopass XPM Xtend(TM) memory IP to protect against security breaches
during the HDCP chip manufacturing process to automate key logistics,
diminish liability, improve tracking and reduce costs related to chip
manufacturing and silicon testing of HDCP keys.

This solution is important given the growing number of extremely expensive
security breach penalties involving HDTVs, recording and playback devices
and the manufacturing processes that create these products.

When:

Thursday, 6 December, 2007 12:45pm

Where:

Room 1, World Trade Center
5 place Robert Schuman
Grenoble, FRANCE

Information

For more information about Kilopass, please visit www.kilopass.com.

For more information about the IP 2007 Conference, please visit
http://www.design-reuse.com/ip07/location/grenoble.php/

About Certicom KeyInject and XPM Xtend

Working closely, Certicom and Kilopass provide a secure path for sensitive
cryptographic keys directly from the licensor of the key through to the
target device. Keys that are unique to individual devices need both a
secure NVM storage technology and a solution that protects these keys
throughout the manufacturing supply chain. Combined, KeyInject and XPM
Xtend provide security for modern semiconductor manufacturing processes as
well as at the device level with physical layer security that protects key
information inside the target device. XPM Xtend is supported for mainstream
TSMC process technologies between 180nm and 65nm today.

For more detailed information online, the datasheet for Certicom KeyInject
is at
http://www.certicom.com/index.php?action=product,keyinjecthdcp_home, and
the datasheet for XPM Xtend is at:
http://www.kilopass.com/public/XPM_Xtend_DS-1.pdf.

About Certicom

Certicom protects the value of content, applications and devices with
government-approved security. Adopted by the National Security Agency (NSA)
for government communications, Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) provides
the most security per bit of any known public-key scheme. As the global
leader in ECC, Certicom security offerings are currently licensed to more
than 300 customers including General Dynamics, Motorola, Oracle, Research
In Motion and Unisys. Founded in 1985, Certicom's corporate offices are in
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada with worldwide sales and marketing
headquarters in Reston, Virginia and offices in the U.S., Canada, Europe
and China. Visit www.certicom.com.

About Kilopass Technology

Kilopass Technology, Inc., a fast-growing supplier of embedded non-volatile
memory intellectual property, leverages standard logic CMOS processes to
deliver one-time programmable structures based on its extra-permanent
memory (XPM) technology. The memory arrays can be used for the storage of
firmware, security codes, calibration data and other application critical
information. Kilopass is headquartered at 3333 Octavius Dr. Suite 101,
Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA. For more information, please visit
http://www.kilopass.com, call (408) 980-8808 or email info@kilopass.com.

Certicom, Certicom Security Architecture, Certicom Trust Infrastructure,
Certicom CodeSign, Certicom KeyInject, Security Builder, Security Builder
API, Security Builder BSP, Security Builder Crypto, Security Builder ETS,
Security Builder GSE, Security Builder IPSec, Security Builder NSE,
Security Builder PKI and Security Builder SSL are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Certicom Corp. All other companies and products listed herein
are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
Information subject to change.

Except for historical information contained herein, this news release
contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
Forward-looking information includes information concerning the Company's
future financial performance, business strategy, plans, goals and
objectives. When used in such documents, the words "plans," "expects,"
"budget," "scheduled," "estimates," "forecasts," "intends," "anticipates,"
"will," "believes" or variations of such words and phrases often, but not
always, identify forward looking statements. Factors which could cause
actual results or events to differ materially from current expectations
include, among other things: the ability of the Company to successfully
implement its strategic initiatives and whether such strategic initiatives
will yield the expected benefits; the ability of the Company to develop,
promote and protect its proprietary technology security breaches or defects
in the Company's products; competitive conditions in the businesses in
which the Company participates; changes in consumer spending; the outcome
of legal proceedings as they arise; general economic conditions and normal
business uncertainty; consolidation in the Company's industry and by its
customers; customer preferences towards product offerings; the risk that
customers may cancel their contracts with the Company; reliance on a
limited number of customers; demand for ECC-based technology; performance
of the Company's management team and the Company's ability to attract and
retain skilled employees; operating the Company's business profitably;
fluctuations in revenue and foreign currency exchange rates; interest rate
fluctuations and other changes in borrowing costs; the ability to develop
and maintain strategic relationships; and other factors identified under
the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's annual information form dated
July 26, 2007 and filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

For further information, please contact:
Kilopass:
Georgia Marszalek
ValleyPR LLC
650 345 7477Georgia@ValleyPR.com
Certicom:
John Conrad
Merritt Group Inc
703-390-1538conrad@merrittgrp.com

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