Thanks to the heads-up note here, I caught the whole thing on tape when it repeated here on the West Coast at 10pm PDT. (I see there are some advantages to living out here!) If I hadn't seen the show with my own eyes, I never would have believed it. The Religious Right, so ready to mind everyone else's personal business and to reshape the government in its own image, opposes something that would make it easier for the government to control the private lives of its citizens. This cryptography stuff sure makes some strange bedfellows. Wow. Of course, the Religious Right is at odds with the current government, what with talk of using the federal racketeering laws against anti-abortion demonstrators. So perhaps they can be forgiven for their current anti-government stance. Their tune might well change if they ever succeed in overturning Roe V Wade. Imagine their glee turning to horror when they discover that those satanic pro-choice people are using encryption to coordinate *their* protests and perhaps even to coordinate travel by women seeking abortions to places where it is still legal. :-) And there's supreme irony in the right to encryption and the right to abortion both being founded in the same basic concept: personal privacy. It all depends on whose ox is being gored, I guess. Phil