Eric (Hollander; my last post was to Eric Hughes)- Your "small laptop with (goodies)" was EXACTLY what we were trying to go for in 1983/84. This was the "Cryptex CS-3" project. Remember that there was no such thing as a laptop at the time. What I was proposing was a self-contained portable encryption terminal. It would have measured about a foot wide by 10" long by about 2-3" thick, had an LCD for about six to eight lines of text at a time, two 3-1/2" FDDs, a pair of sockets for "Codepacks" (hardware key storage devices which would have been tamper-resistant and password protected), a good quality keyboard, a modem with modular jack and optional acoustic couplers (for payphones: low-tech anonymity)... the Tempest feature would have been achieved by putting 100dB of white noise on the metal housing, which would have been imperfect but decent enough. There was no plan for a hard drive; the operating software would have been a simple line editor and the crypto routines, all burned into ROM and part of the main processor board. No plans for thermite linings at the time either, though we did have a password routine with a duress option, which would have erased anything on the FDDs or the Codepacks. My first intended market for this thing was the political dissident community, where communication has always suffered to a small but noticeable degree by the "we can't talk on the phone" factor. It never got going because the market was too small. Now it would seem the time has definitely come... though whatever ultimately arises out of the cypherpunk scene will be many many times more sophisticated and versatile. -gg