Even as a former 'hacker' myself, the second to last person I would trust not to install a backdoor (next to the NSA) is a hacker. In addition, merely having been a systems hacker hardly qualifies one for writing complex crypto software. Without any assurance as to the authors' qualifications for writing a crypto package, or their integrity. Even if I could trust their integrity, I'm very leery of black-box software. ---- Robert W. Clark Just Say No! to the rclark@nyx.cs.du.edu Big Brother Chip Indeed. There were a pair of papers in Cryptologia a few years ago on ``Data Insecurity'' packages. The author cryptanalyzed a number of different PC-based crypto packages, and contrasted that with the glowing advertising copy...