Press Release: Chicago Board of Education Implements Authentidate.com Technology from BitWise Designs
Friday December 17, 1:36 pm Eastern Time

Company Press Release, SOURCE: BitWise Designs, Inc.

``The Chicago Board of Education is the third largest public school system in the country,'' said Sharon Revello, Secretary of the Chicago Board of Education. ``Our system has over 548 schools, 420,000 students and over 23,000 full time teachers which generates an enormous amount of paper documents. All these documents are public information. We are extremely excited about using BitWise Designs, AuthentiDate.com product. We believe that AuthentiDate.com, coupled with BitWise Designs DocSTAR system will greatly enhance the efficiency and integrity of our public schools record management operation. BitWise Designs technology will allow us, to provide our staff and to the public authenticated hard copies of board minutes, records and various correspondence. We can AuthentiDate documents and have them available by fax, via email, or over the internet,'' added Revello.

AuthentiDate.com's innovative technology affords learning institutions, businesses and individuals the opportunity to verify and authenticate documents to meet the challenges of the new millennium.

``I cannot tell you how excited I am about our AuthentiDate.com product and the partnership with the Chicago Board of Education,'' said John T. Botti, CEO of BitWise Designs, Inc, and Chairman of AuthentiDate.com. ``The Chicago school system is making practical use of our technology and is allowing the masses to reap the benefits. An educational system is just one great example of how AuthentiDate.com can impact people's lives in a very positive way. Along with public school districts (120,000 nation wide) we have had inquiries from the collegiate and university level to manage transcripts electronically. We believe education will be a strong vertical market for BitWise Designs, Inc. and AuthentiDate.com,'' added Botti.

AuthentiDate.com is specifically designed to confidentially and affordably secure, as well as authenticate every kind of sensitive document and electronic data file. Some other examples are E-mails, transcripts, banking and electronic trade transactions, voice and video files, bank statements, insurance policies, wills and contracts, etc.

``BitWise Designs technology can help public and private institutions be in better compliance with all of the state and federal regulations because the product offers a ''super original`` document,'' said John Botti. The contents of any particular authentidated file have been uploaded, time-date stamped and securely and confidentially stored,`` added Botti.

This distinctive technology from AuthentiDate com., a subsidiary of BitWise Designs, (Nasdaq: BTWS - news) enables users to verify that a file existed at a specific time and that there have been no alterations since its authentication. AuthentiDate.com allows users to verify sensitive documents, and prove their integrity before any problems caused by the millennium bug arise. This new authentication allows both the document and it's content to be time/date stamped and stored.

``When I think about the volume of paper that gets distributed to over 500 of our schools daily, we can begin to AuthentiDate via E-mail or Fax and we can save thousands of dollars in paper costs,'' said Sharon Revello. ``In addition, the staff that we have that deals with this huge amount of paper work can be put to a more productive use. We can concentrate on our goals of enriching our children lives instead of dealing with the mass of paper documents,'' added Revello.