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BEA USER’S CONFERENCE 2000, SAN FRANCISCO, February, 22, 2000 – At the Fifth Annual BEA User’s Conference in San Francisco this week, Certicom, a leading provider of mobile e-business security, announced an agreement with BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), the E-Commerce Transactions Company™ under which BEA will license Certicom’s Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Plus™ 3.0 technology to secure its award-winning BEA WebLogic Enterprise™. The integration of Certicom’s trusted encryption into BEA WebLogic Enterprise, the market’s leading CORBA and EJB application server, will provide BEA customers added assurance that their sensitive, mission-critical e-commerce transactions will be protected.

"In order to choose the best SSL encryption solution for BEA WebLogic Enterprise, BEA performed an extensive evaluation of security providers," said Joe Menard, president of the BEA E-Commerce Server Division. "We chose Certicom because they offer proven encryption technology packaged with a superior level of support that fully addresses the needs of our high-volume application servers."

BEA WebLogic Enterprise delivers an e-commerce transaction platform for Web-based solutions and applications built using the latest distributed object technologies, including Enterprise Java (J2EE) and CORBA. BEA is intended to meet the demands of the e-generation with end-to-end e-commerce transaction solutions that work, without fail, every second – no matter how many thousands of transactions are processed.

"Many of the world’s most successful companies rely on the BEA end-to-end e-commerce transaction software to deliver their e-business solutions," said Rick Dalmazzi, president and CEO of Certicom. "The addition of our trusted SSL Plus encryption provides an added security backbone to BEA WebLogic Enterprise, so BEA customers can be assured that their mission-critical e-commerce information is secure."

Created by Netscape four years ago, SSL has rapidly become the most widely used security protocol in the industry. Certicom’s SSL Plus toolkit is the industry’s most widely deployed commercial SSL product, due largely to its ease of use, rapid development time, and support for RSA, DSA/Diffie-Hellman, and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) – the only commercial SSL product with that capability.

About SSL Plus
SSL Plus 3.0 has been designed to provide plug-and-play integration for virtually any network application. Designed for developers creating general-purpose desktop-to-server solutions for e-commerce and the enterprise, SSL Plus 3.0 shortens development cycles and reduces product costs while assuring a low maintenance implementation. Its robust architecture and API, as well as industry leading documentation and support enable rapid application development to speed time to market.

A key feature is the callback layer, which provides a critical architectural advantage enabling developers to write specific callbacks for control of platform specifics. As a result, developers have the type of strong control and detailed information about secure transmission sessions needed to add fully secure SSL functionality rapidly and with confidence to client/server applications. SSL Plus 3.0 is also thread-safe to simplify customer design and implementation phases, and it supports blocking and non-blocking I/O to enable both simple and more sophisticated I/O channels.

The SSL Plus toolkit is used by leading companies such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Lotus and Intuit to build security into a wide range of applications and products for the Internet, intranets, and corporate networks, from traditional Web browsers and servers to home banking products, handheld devices, and legacy mainframes.

About Certicom
Certicom is a leading provider of mobile e-business security technology used to build strong, fast, and efficient security solutions. Major computing and communications companies, such as 3Com/Palm Computing, BellSouth Wireless Data, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Pitney Bowes, QUALCOMM and VeriFone, incorporate Certicom's technology into electronic commerce software, wireless messaging applications, and smart cards. Certicom is a leading source for a complete range of OEM security products and services, including cryptographic toolkits, custom implementations, and security integration services and consulting. Certicom's worldwide sales and marketing operations are based in Hayward, California, with cryptographic research and product development in Toronto, Canada. Certicom shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "CIC." For more information, visit Certicom's Web site at http://www.certicom.com.

About BEA Systems, Inc.
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is the E-Commerce Transactions Company™ powering many of the world’s most innovative companies that serve the "e-generation," companies such as Amazon.com, DIRECTV, E*TRADE, Federal Express, Kaiser Permanente, Nokia, Qwest, and United Airlines. The e-generation relies on the Web to conduct their everyday business, demanding richer, more personalized experiences and the guarantee that your Web site is always available – every minute of every day. The award-winning BEA E-Commerce Transaction Platform™, coupled with BEA consulting, education, and support services, helps companies launch reliable e-commerce initiatives quickly. BEA solutions help companies of all sizes build e-commerce infrastructures that leverage existing investments and provide the foundation for running a successful integrated e-business for the e-generation. BEA has more than 50 offices in 24 countries, is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and is on the Web at www.bea.com.

SSL Plus, and Certicom are registered trademarks of Certicom Corp. BEA is a registered trademark, and BEA WebLogic Enterprise, The E-Commerce Transactions Company, and BEA E-Commerce Transaction Platform are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other companies and products listed herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to Certicom’s encryption technology. All statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward looking statements including among other things, statements regarding Certicom's expectations, beliefs, intentions, or strategies regarding the future. Our actual results could differ significantly from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of the risks identified in the documents that we file with the Ontario Securities Commission and other securities regulatory authorities from time to time including our current Annual Information Form.

For further information:

David Krane
Director of Corporate Marketing
Certicom Corp.
(510) 780-5420
dkrane@certicom.com

Jessica Johannes
Lutchansky Communications for Certicom
(408) 938-9050 x 15
jessica@lcomm.com