Joins ValiCert Affiliate Program to provide Validation
                      Authority Services

BCE Emergis (TSE:IFM) announced today that it has signed a
strategic alliance with California-based ValiCert, a leading
provider of end-to-end secure infrastructure solutions for
e-Transactions. Based on the agreement, BCE Emergis has become a
member of the ValiCert Affiliate Program and will now be able to
provide its customers with validation authority (VA) services,
thus further enhancing its already significant security services
offering and extending the trust and security in
business-to-business (B2B) transactions. 

VA services enable customers to identify potentially unsecure
parties in an electronic transaction by instantly verifying the
validity of digital credentials, including digital certificates
issued by any certificate authority (CA), within any application,
using any protocol, from anywhere in the world. 

BCE Emergis' VA services support multiple PKI protocols,
including the Online Certificate Status Checking Protocol, CRL
distribution, and certificate revocation trees. Through its
partnership with ValiCert, BCE Emergis now offers an online
digital certificate validation service that supports multi-vendor
security certificates, including those from Entrust, IBM,
VeriSign/Thawte and Baltimore/CyberTrust.

"Considering the high growth of e-commerce and the need for
strong security services, we are committed to broadening our
portfolio, building on our existing PKI Hosting & Management
Services offering and integrating new technologies such as
certificate validation", said Rene Poirier, Senior Vice
President, Development, Marketing and Integration, BCE Emergis.
"Security and trust are the main drivers of e-commerce and BCE
Emergis intends to position itself as a premier provider in this
field."

"We are excited to welcome industry leader BCE Emergis to our
Affiliate Program as they will play a key role in our expansion
into the Canadian market," said Sathvik Krishnamurthy,
vice-president of marketing and business development for
ValiCert. "BCE Emergis is a leading Canadian company - as a
result, users can now buy services that are from - and based in
- Canada."

BCE Emergis already designs and operates PKI Hosting and
Management Services on behalf of client organizations and
provides them with the infrastructure needed to become their own
CA - with their own certification policies. Customers benefit
from BCE Emergis' expertise, fast turn-around time, scalability,
cross-certification capabilities and economies of scale while
maintaining total control over their security policies. BCE
Emergis VA Services represent the next step in providing end-to
end solutions to certificate issuers and users.

BCE Emergis broad portfolio of security solutions also includes
the BCE Emergis Electronic Business Network (BEBN), a highly
secure business network that allows businesses to conduct
worry-free e-commerce over the Internet. BEBN is an end-to-end
solution designed to reduce the complexity and cost of creating
and managing a secure, proprietary network. It is a virtually
private TCP/IP-based solution designed to support
business-to-business e-commerce in a highly secure environment. 

ValiCert is a leading provider of secure e-Transaction
infrastructure solutions for e-commerce and other
business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications.
ValiCert's validation, transaction and proof products and
services are designed to work with any certificate authority and
e-payment solution to provide protection before, during and after
e-Transactions. ValiCert's innovative All-Sourcing(TM) approach
delivers its products and services through enterprise software,
through an outsourced ASP service, and through an offering for
service providers. 

ValiCert was one of the first companies to develop a
commercially-available Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
validation service and continues to lead a variety of Internet
standards efforts. The company is one of the chief authors of the
OCSP and the Simple Certificate Validation Protocol (SCVP), and
contributed to the XML Data Type Definition (DTD) for digital
receipts as a founding member of the Digital Receipt
Alliance.ValiCert is headquartered in Mountain View, California,
with offices worldwide, and can be reached on the Internet at
www.valicert.com.

BCE Emergis delivers network-centric e-commerce services that
significantly improve customer processes through secure B2B
exchanges. Combining e-commerce, e-payment and security services,
BCE Emergis offers clients in the healthcare, financial services,
telecommunications and transportation industries a full suite of
core and vertical-specific services that are the essential
building blocks and infrastructure required for e-commerce. BCE
Emergis is one of the top e-commerce providers in North America
and its shares are included in the TSE 100 Composite Index. For
more information, please refer to www.emergis.com. 

This news release contains certain forward-looking statements
that reflect the current views and/or expectations of BCE Emergis
with respect to its performance, business and future events. Such
statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and
assumptions. Actual results and events may vary significantly.


For more information: 

Anne Belliveau                   Nancy MacGregor
General Manager, Marketing
 & Communications
BCE Emergis                      ValiCert (Corman Communications)
(514) 868-2232                   (415) 643-0766
Email: abelliveau@emergis.com    nancy@cormancom.com