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nCipher - Online boom creates new demand

February 2008

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nCipher (NCH; 178p) looks like a business tailor made to prosper inthe current climate where data protection issues have suddenly come tothe fore with lurid tales of the Government losing public databut increasingly also due to the exponential growth of onlineretailing. What makes the prospects bright is that the company is one of only ahandful worldwide that has developed its particular niche ofspecialised IT hardware that supports encryption, a technology beingused increasingly to safeguard against fraudulent e-commercetransactions and unauthorised access to data. The very specialisednature of its software and its market presence was reinforced two yearsago when the Competition Commission blocked a takeover (at 300p) by aU ...

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