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SAFLINK provides technology for "doorway to desktop" authentication

Friday, January 7, 2005

Bolstered by its involvement in several U.S. projects, including the Department of Defense’s Common Access Card and the massive TWIC program, SAFLINK, a 14-year-old Bellevue, Washington company, is evolving from simple network authentication to technology covering both physical and logical access.

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