This DDJ reference to export control laws is pretty typical: AS+From: nobody@jpunix.com (Anonymous) AS+ENCRYPTION software. Is posting such software online worldwide the same as +exporting it? If so, the State Department might have a thing or two to say. The State Department may claim the right to have some say in things under the Commerce Clause, Article 1, Sec. 8 of the Constitution. Seems to me, however, that the Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Amendments pretty clearly slap this claim down: the right to trade freely predates the United States, and is hence "reserved... to the people", in the language of the Tenth. -dlj. david.lloyd-jones@canrem.com * 1st 1.11 #3818 * But I'm a vegetarian. OK, let's eat you first.