nCipher first company to be awarded FIPS 140-2 certification for Hardware Security Modules; nCipher's nShield, payShield and nForce range of hardware cryptography products first to be awarded new US NIST certification.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-24 March 2003-NCIPHER: nCipher first company to be awarded FIPS 140-2 certification for Hardware Security Modules; nCipher's nShield, payShield and nForce range of hardware cryptography products first to be awarded new US NIST certification(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03242003 Cambridge, UK -- nCipher plc (LSE:NCH), a leading provider of IT cryptographic security, today announced it had received the first Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 certification awarded by the US government to a hardware security module.

nCipher, which has more FIPS 140-certified products than any other company, has received FIPS 140-2 certifications for its nShield, payShield and nForce hardware security modules. FIPS 140-2 is the latest...