If RSA wished to make it extremely difficult to get its patent revoked, it could raise its regular price to something on the order of $50,000. Then, it could offer a $49,900.00 discount to those who would be willing to perform for them the 'service' of writing to the government to complain about any possible outlawing of cryptographic technology. Then, if the government wished to illegalize this software, since the software was legal at the time of purchase, it could not be confiscated without due payment of value. If thousands of people were to say, "Hey, this software's worth fifty thousand dollars, you have to pay that." It would throw at least something of a legal obstacle in the path of this obscene government menace. Does anyone know of any legal precedent which might be binding to a case of this nature? I know that eminent domain laws are usually _very_ generous in compensation for property seized for public works, if there is even the slightest _trace_ of impropriety in their actions. ---- Robert W. Clark rclark@nyx.cs.du.edu PGP signature available by mail or finger