You can get large parts of the Federal Register online on the Internet from gopher.internet.com, using the gopher protocol. Unfortunately, the people who run the service claim to not permit republication. I tried to sign up as their real customer, but this bogosity got in the way. Why pay money to these people for access to public domain info that you then can't use? Here is as much as you can get without being a subscriber: <ARTICLE> Date="08/24/93" Citation="58 FR 44662" Group="NONE" Type="NOTICE" Department="DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE" Agency="NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (NIST), COMMERCE" Subject="Opportunity To Join a Cooperative Research and Development Consortium To Develop Secure Software Encryption With Integrated Cryptographic Key Escrowing Techniques" <HEADER> ------------------------------------------------------------ National Institute of Standards and Technology [Docket No. 930789-3189] Opportunity To Join a Cooperative Research and Development Consortium To Develop Secure Software Encryption With Integrated Cryptographic Key Escrowing Techniques AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Commerce. ACTION: Notice of opportunity to join a cooperative research and development consortium. </HEADER> ------------------------------------------------------------ National Institute of Standards and Technology [Docket No. 930789-3189] Opportunity To Join a Cooperative Research and Development Consortium To Develop Secure Software Encryption With Integrated Cryptographic Key Escrowing Techniques AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Commerce. ACTION: Notice of opportunity to join a cooperative research and development consortium. .. ------------------------------------------------------------ SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks industrial and academic parties interested in entering into a cooperative research consortium on the development of new technology for secure software encryption with integrated cryptographic key escrowing techniques. The program will be undertaken within the scope and confines of The Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 (15 U.S.C. 3710a), which provides federal laboratories including NIST, with the authority to enter into cooperative research agreements with qualified parties. Under ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full access to this file is restricted to subscribers only. To become a subscriber to this service, please read the information provided at the top level of the Counterpoint Publishing Internet Federal Register Gopher. Please send any and all comments to 'fedreg@internet.com' -- Thanks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------