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Promissory Note - Chester L.F. Paulson and ImageWare Software Inc.

Promissory Notes


$500,000.00                                                   Portland, Oregon
                                                            November 24, 1999

                                 PROMISSORY NOTE

                  For valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of
which is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned ("Borrower") promises and agrees
to pay to the order and assigns of Chester L.F. Paulson ("Lender") at 811 SW
Naito Parkway, Suite 200, Portland, Oregon 97204 (or at such other address as
Lender may specify in writing from time to time) the sum of Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00). Interest on this Note will accrue from the date
of this Note until it is paid in full at the rate of interest applicable to the
promissory note attached to this Note as Exhibit A as set forth in the section
thereof entitled "Variable Interest Rate."

                  Borrower will repay this Note as follows:

                  1.       Beginning on December 15, 1999 and continuing on the
fifteenth day of each month thereafter, Borrower will pay to Lender or Lender's
designee all accrued and unpaid interest on this Note; and

                  2.       Borrower will pay to Lender or Lender's designee the
entire unpaid principal balance of this Note together with all accrued and
unpaid interest and all other sums due and owing under this Note or under the
Loan and Indemnification Agreement dated the same date as this Note (the "Loan
Agreement") on the earlier of the following:

                           (a)      any written or oral demand by Lender;

                           (b)      the closing of Borrower's initial public
offering underwritten by Paulson Investment Company, Inc. from the proceeds of
such initial public offering; or

                           (c)      April 3, 2000.

                  Capitalized terms used in this Note and not otherwise defined
will have the meanings assigned to those terms in the Loan Agreement.

                  Borrower also promises and agrees to pay on demand the costs
and disbursements, including reasonable attorney fees, including at trial and in
any post-judgment proceeding, incurred by Lender in collecting this Note and
enforcing the Loan Agreement whether or not in a civil action, arbitration
proceeding, or insolvency proceeding and whether or not the claim is commenced,
tried, or appealed.

                  Borrower hereby waives acceptance, presentment, demand,
diligence, protest, nonpayment, dishonor and notice of any of the foregoing and
consents to impairment of subrogation rights. Borrower acknowledges that
forbearance by Lender, including any failure to make demand, or other failure by
Lender to exercise any right or remedy upon demand or default will not
constitute a waiver or grounds for a claim of estoppel.

                                            IMAGEWARE SOFTWARE, INC.


                                            By: /s/ Wayne Wetherell
                                               --------------------------------
                                            Title: V.P & CFO
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