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Media Release: Record Orders in 2004 PGP CORPORATION ANNOUNCES RECORD ORDERS IN 2004 AND CONTINUES ENCRYPTION LEADERSHIP IN FORTUNE 100 Enterprise Adoption, Industry Recognition, Technology Partnerships, Channel Expansion, and Product Innovations Highlight 2004 and early 2005 Palo Alto, CA/March 1, 2005 - PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise encryption solutions, today announced record orders for its award-winning encryption solutions in calendar year 2004, further solidifying its position as the encryption market leader. "2004 was the most successful fiscal year in the 10-year history of commercial PGP products," said Alex Doll, PGP Corporation's CFO and vice president of business development. "In addition, we have made the proper long-term investments in 2004 to position ourselves for continued growth in 2005 and beyond. In 2004, we doubled our headcount, accelerated our infrastructure and operations investments, expanded the size of our California headquarters, opened a new facility in Utah, grew our European infrastructure, and significantly increased our engineering resources and expertise-all while producing a positive cash flow for the year." "Analysts, the media, and our customers have all voted for PGP Corporation," said Phillip Dunkelberger, president and CEO. "Throughout 2004 and early 2005, our company was repeatedly recognized as an innovator by major industry associations and publications. Most important, customers recognized the value of our solutions and the need for pervasive encryption by increasing the size and type of PGP deployments. We continued to enhance our encryption suite through new enterprise technology partnerships with leaders in the messaging gateway, content filtering, and instant messaging security market segments. Our FIPS 140-2 validation and newly issued patents further demonstrated our technology expertise. We also expanded our channel organization as well as our global presence, giving us the broadest reach of any company in our sector."Enterprise Adoption Regulatory requirements for securing confidential and personal information in transit via email, across the Internet, and in storage continue to drive the need for encryption throughout the extended organization. "Enterprises are turning to us for help in addressing their compliance issues as well as a variety of supply-chain and customer requirements," added Mr. Dunkelberger. "They have discovered that VPNs, hosted systems, and even SSL/SSH are not secure enough to meet their needs. Instead, they want to purchase solutions from a company with a history of securing mission-critical data for global enterprises." PGP Corporation's ongoing dialog with customers has allowed the company to develop the broadest integrated encryption suite in the industry. The PGP encryption product suite includes network (PGP Universal), desktop (PGP® Desktop), FTP/batch transfer (PGP® Command Line), and SDK solutions. With more than a decade of experience solving real-world security problems, PGP Corporation has both an enviable track record and a growing list of global enterprise users.Industry Recognition Technology Partnerships According to the META Group, merging encryption and digital signature technology with gateway email hygiene deployments increases email security without placing further burdens on users, while minimizing IT involvement. "With PGP Universal, we now provide enterprise customers a complete solution that combines encryption with our industry-leading MTA platform, policy enforcement, and preventive and reactive security measures, including sender reputation, virus outbreaks, spam blocking and virus detection," confirmed Tom Gillis, senior vice president worldwide marketing at IronPort™ Systems. In 2004, PGP Corporation formed an alliance with Research in Motion (RIM) that will expand existing compatibility between PGP Universal and BlackBerry Enterprise Server™. The companies are working together to provide seamless integration for customers deploying both enterprise-wide PGP Universal email security and the BlackBerry® wireless platform. "The alliance with RIM reflects our commitment to support all protocols, email standards, and platforms required to achieve universal enterprise email security and policy compliance," said PGP President and CEO Phillip Dunkelberger.Technology Leadership & Innovation All PGP products are architected to allow for rapid and non-disruptive migration of all encryption, hash, compression, and signature algorithms. When researchers recently revealed that a flaw in a hash algorithm that supports the digital signatures used in popular SSL browser security and encryption could enable a theoretical attack, PGP Corporation was already in the process of migrating to stronger algorithms and a broader range of authentication options. These new capabilities will be delivered in the upcoming releases of PGP Desktop and PGP Universal. PGP Corporation's technology innovation has also been recognized by two additional technology patents. The first patent (patent number 6,662,299), granted in June 2004, addresses a longstanding issue in public key encryption: how to handle lost passphrases. The second patent (patent number 6,851,049), granted in February 2005, covers various methods to increase message anonymity. PGP Corporation currently has more than a dozen issued and pending patents. PGP Corporation is committed to standards-based, nonproprietary technologies, ensuring wide compatibility among deployments. Although a number of other email security vendors have promised support for PGP encryption as well as X.509 + S/MIME in future releases, all existing PGP products already employ these open standards for public key formats as well as OpenPGP (RFC 2440). PGP Corporation continues to lead the industry by developing innovative products. PGP Universal was designed from the outset to provide easy implementation, integration, and interoperation with existing security solutions, mail systems, and network infrastructures. Features such as auto-enrollment of users and secure delivery for recipients without an encryption solution continue to set the benchmark for email security. Its unique proxy architecture provides security without plug-ins, thereby minimizing user training and software maintenance costs, and also delivers an approach for extending that protection beyond email. Channel Expansion "In comparison, PGP Corporation focuses on finding 'star' partners and then invests the resources needed to make them successful," continued Freres. "Together, we've been able to generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in opportunities within our existing accounts as well as break into new accounts in industries ranging from banking and finance to education." According to Freres, information security and regulatory compliance are foremost in the minds of the business community today. "Our relationship with PGP Corporation enables us to offer strong information security solutions that help customers leverage technology for greater compliance and at the same time enhances our business. Plus, because of its products' architectural flexibility and the number of premier technology companies with which PGP Corporation partners, PGP encryption solutions fit easily into most environments."About PGP Corporation During the past ten years, PGP® technology has earned a global reputation for standards-based, trusted security products. It is the only commercial security vendor to publish source code for peer review. The unique PGP encryption product suite includes PGP Universal-an automatic, self-managing, network-based solution for enterprises-as well as desktop, mobile, FTP/batch transfer, and SDK solutions. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com or +1 650 319 9000. 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