Um, this is pretty paranoid shit. The source for PGP is freely available - and the first thing that was done after it was released was that people started looking at the source for exactly the kinds of things that you mention. None were found. Of course, there *could* be glaring weaknesses in PGP internally -- and that's why the NSA chose to allow it to propogate, just like they did DES. But I don't believe that there was a conspiracy on the part of the author of PGP - after all, that's one more person outside of the control of the NSA that would know what was going on, and PRZ's anarchistic tendancies are well-known :) Ed Carp, N7EKG/VE3 ecarp@netcom.com 519/824-3307 an88744@anon.penet.fi If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel! -- Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"