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Tumbleweed And Edvance Announce Partnership In Hong Kong

Companies Have Introduced Tumbleweed's Industry-Leading MailGate Email Security Solution in Asia

Redwood City, CA — March 15, 2005 – Edvance, Ltd., a privately held security consulting and technology company, and Tumbleweed Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: TMWD), a leading provider of email and file transfer security solutions, today jointly announced Edvance’s introduction and support of the Tumbleweed MailGate Email Firewall solution in the Hong Kong market. Since entering into a reseller agreement with Tumbleweed in the first half of last year, Edvance has secured multiple customers in both the Hong Kong commercial and government sectors.

Edvance Limited is one of Hong Kong's premier providers of secure Internet communications solutions and technology Consultancy Services in the region. Edvance is a fusion of technology consulting and application development disciplines and offers innovations that help clients across all industries. Edvance is constructed around a group of highly skilled professionals with a diverse set of experiences across multiple platforms, industries and business environments.

Tumbleweed products allow Edvance to solve their customer’s email security needs. Tumbleweed has reinforced its commitment to the Hong Kong market by addressing region-specific requirements with the latest release of MailGate Email Firewall. MailGate Email Firewall 6.1 now supports expanded character sets, allowing the MailGate Email Firewall to even more effectively block Asian-language spam while maintaining a low false positive rate.

“The Tumbleweed suite of solutions, combined with Edvance’s growing resources, further solidifies the strong stable of security offerings for the Hong Kong market," said Ashley Lo, Technical Director of Edvance. "Given the significant increase in phishing attacks, spam, and e-mail borne viruses over the past year, organizations are now looking to technology providers like Tumbleweed for highly effective, comprehensive, and cost effective security solutions.”

“We are very pleased to have a partner of the caliber of Edvance representing Tumbleweed in the Hong Kong market,” said Bob Crane, VP Asia-Pacific and Japan. “We are very encouraged by their success to date, and extremely excited about working with Edvance to meet the demands of the Hong Kong Internet security marketplace.”

About Tumbleweed Communications Corp.
Tumbleweed provides security solutions for email protection, file transfers, and identity validation that allow organizations to safely conduct business over the Internet. Tumbleweed offers these solutions in three comprehensive product suites: MailGate, SecureTransport and Valicert Validation Authority. MailGate provides protection against spam, viruses and attacks, and enables policy-based message filtering, encryption and routing. SecureTransport enables business to safely exchange large files and transactions without proprietary software.  Valicert Validation Authority is the world-leading solution for determining the validity of digital certificates.  Tumbleweed’s enterprise and government customers include ABN Amro, Bank of America Securities, Catholic Healthcare West, JP Morgan Chase & Co., The Regence Group (Blue Cross/Blue Shield), St. Luke's Episcopal Healthcare System, the US Food and Drug Administration, the US Department of Defense, and all four branches of the US Armed Forces. Tumbleweed was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif. For additional information about Tumbleweed go to www.tumbleweed.com or call 650-216-2000.

SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT
Tumbleweed cautions that forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on plans and expectations as of the date of the press release, and that a number of factors could cause the actual results to differ materially from the guidance given at this time. These factors are described in the Safe Harbor statement below.

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, particularly with respect to sales of Tumbleweed products in the Asian markets. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “potential,” “continue,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates,” and similar expressions. For further cautions about the risks of investing in Tumbleweed, we refer you to the documents Tumbleweed files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly Tumbleweed’s Form 10-K filed March 15, 2004, Form 10-Q filed May 10, 2004, Form 10-Q filed August 12, 2004, and Form 10-Q filed November 9, 2004.

Tumbleweed assumes no obligation to update information contained in this press release, which represents the Company’s expectations only as of the date of this release and should not be viewed as a statement about the Company’s expectations after such date. Although this release may remain available on the Company’s website or elsewhere, its continued availability does not indicate that the Company is reaffirming or confirming any of the information contained herein.

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