Did anyone ever think that maybe, just maybe, PGP was developed, and before the programmer started giving it away for free, that he was paid by the government to give them the key which can unlock ANY PGP locked document/file/etc??? I mean, wasn't it kind of surprising that the government would make such a big deal over this? To make hackers/phreakers in general think that this was the greatest encryption scheme available today for free (the programmer was paid to distribute his software for free, seeing that the sum was sizable), they made an act by (i don't know the specifics) arresting him, telling him to stop distributing, etc... Makes you wonder huh... It's possible. Maybe he wrote in the PGP program a loophole in the encryption so that he could decrypt anything that was encrypted by PGP. Maybe he is big brother. Maybe big brother is running him... I mean, has anyone ever gone thru the entire source code and checked if this PGP is a valid encryption scheme, or just the gov't slipping in their clipper thing without us knowing it. Reply here--no email please... The Devils Advocate, and preventing the Government Anarchy, Farmer Pete