Yes, these are our freinds. They are attacking key recovery where its being sold; namely to companies. And the report is damned effective at selling companies that 'the best cryptographers in the world' oppose this. Its been very useful to me for that already. Adam | just a bad idea, not nearly as strong as it could be). The reason they give | is that they think it may be too expensive for corporate America. | What they don't say is Far more interesting: | | They don't say that key escrow is unacceptable, period. | | They don't mention the big brother problem. | | They don't talk about the long history of | government abuse (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc). | | The conveniently leave out ALL the libertarian issues about how key escrow making the government bigger and more powerful. | | They just seem to care about what it costs. And | these are our friends? -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume