News

SSH Communications Security Corp (hereinafter referred to as"SSH"
or as"the Company") and Applied Computing Research (ACR) Oy
(hereinafter referred to as"ACR") have resolved to merge.
According to this merger, ACR (the company being acquired) shall
merge to SSH (the acquiring company).

With the implementation of the mentioned merger, the shareholders
of ACR Mr. Tatu Ylönen and Mr. Tero Kivinen shall receive
16,942,487 new shares of SSH as the consideration of the merger.

The implementation of the merger and an increase of the share
capital based on the merger shall be registered to the Trade
Register on October 31, 2004.

SSH shall apply for that the shares issued as the consideration
would be introduced to public trading on the main list of Helsinki
Exchanges from November 1, 2004. The new shares shall belong to
the same class of shares as the existing shares.

In connection with the above mentioned applying procedure, SSH has
today published a prospectus. This prospectus is available in
HEXGate (the address: Fabianinkatu 14, 00300 Helsinki) and in the
head office of the Company (the address: Fredrikinkatu 42, 00100
Helsinki). The prospectus can also be found from the web-sites of
the Company (http://www.ssh.com).

It is recommended that the persons who are interested in the
Company, its business and its shares would familiarize themselves
with the prospectus in its entirety.

In Helsinki on October 25, 2004


SSH COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY CORP

Arto Vainio
CEO

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