ok..i don't know how many of you saw this, and..given my short time recently, it may have even passed through this list..so, if it's a re-post, i apologive..if not, enjoy..but i figure with all the other side threads that come through here..this will be my fuck up if it's a re-post, ok?! well, enough of that, onto the post! ***************************from the BoS list****************** In a development that is probably sending Louis Freeh into coniptions and may represent a fatal blow to the administration's efforts to control encryption exports, the source code for Pretty Good Privacy's PGP 5.0 encryption program was posted Monday on a web site at the University of Oslo. So how did it get there, what with prohibitions on the export of 128-bit encryption encryption software? Right out the front door, that's how -- in the form of a 6,000-page book (remember them?), a format that is not covered by the law. A group of enterprising hackers set about scanning all 6,000 pages of the source code and then painstakingly double-checked for errors, a two-month process whose final fruits were unveiled in Unix format Monday, with Mac and Windows versions forthcoming. PGP says it had nothing to do with the whole thing, but was happy to have its product vetted free by a group of experts, whose trouble-shooting showed that the code is secure and contains no back doors for government visitors. More info at http://www5.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/zdnn/0812/zdnn0006.html