CNET has the full story at URL:http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,17474,00.html. Apparently (IMHO), someone at IBM realized that Cryptolopes were isomorphic to copy-protection -- and we all know how much widely-available commercial software is copy-protected today (i.e. none to speak of). As a veteran of the copy-protection wars on the side of the bad guys (the copy-protectors), it is just impossible to fully copy-protect software given the current state of PC and workstation hardware (though I expect most of you already know this). I predict that if someone tries to add features to computers to make copy-protection more tamper-resistant, there will be a great groundswell of protest by the mass of computer users, both private and corporate. Only if such protection were mandated by government (a la Stallman's "The Right to Read") would this even be close to feasible. To close, a quote from Eugene Spafford: "The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts." ========================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN "Their walls are built of cannon balls, their motto is 'Don't Tread on Me'"