in a classic tirade, greg broiles' rants with fever and pitch, comparing the government's threat to make cryptoprivacy tools contraband and pkp's very real attempts to do exactly that. you know what? i agree completely. i don't plan to stop using pgp. if pkp wants to be reasonable, we can make a deal. in the meantime, my interest in pgp is research with no commercial significance. patent courts have long recognized the validity of experimental use of patented inventions by such researchers. don't believe me? see rebecca s. eisenberg, "patents and the progress of science: exclusive rights and experimental use," university of chicago law review, Vol. 56(3), pp. 1017-1086 (summer 1989). i suggest cypherpunks should make accommodation with pkp and the patent office by renouncing commercial exploitation of pgp, and embracing pgp as a foundation for building and understanding cryptoprivacy tools. that is to say, we blow them off. peter