Hello out there! The current version of strn (see below) contains a signature verification command (control-V). It looks for either a RIPEM or PGP signature line and passes the article to the appropriate command for verification. (Strn leaves it up to the user to interpret the output of the command.) I have a few questions/requests that I hope the cypherpunks list can help me with: 1. Does anyone know if including code like system("pgp -m foobar") might cause legal problems? Strn doesn't implement any cryptographic techniques. 2. What's the status on a USA-legal PGP (using RSAREF)? I would like to greatly expand strn's cryptographic features, but I'd rather not implement features that many of strn's users can't use. (That includes me--I won't use PGP until/unless the legal issues are cleared up.) 3. It would be greatly convenient if someone would implement a "verify signature only" switch for PGP. Most of the applications I would like to use don't involve data hiding--just signature verification. I'm also lobbying the RIPEM author to include a similar feature. Also, if anyone has any comments or suggestions about newsreader cryptographic features feel free to send mail. I hope to do some work later with things like remote reconfiguration, trusted ratings, suggested reading lists, and the like. --Cliff P.S. Strn is about 10K lines of C code added to trn. It is (probably) just a few weeks away from a public beta test. If anyone really wants to test strn, let me know and I'll consider it. More information is also available via finger or mail. -- Clifford A. Adams caadams@polaris.unm.edu | USENET Interface Project: 457 Ash St. NE Albuquerque, NM 87106 | Tools for advanced newsreading STRN (Scan TRN) now in testing: trn 3.0 plus flexible newsgroup menus, fast article scoring with score ordered display, and merged/virtual newsgroups.