Page 3 of the San Jose Mercury News has a small blurb about WebTV's browser/set-top box that "uses computer-security technology so powerful that the government is classifying it as a weapon that will require a special export license before it can be sold overseas". "Few industry experts expect such a licsense to be granted, meaning the companies are unlikely to begin selling current versions of the US-made devices next year in Eurpoe and Japan as they had planned". [fluff about export laws] "We're the guinea pig" says Steve Perlman, chairman and CEO blah blah. So what's the story here? It's a web browser, so they're probably talking about SSL. SSL (both versions) already has mechanisims for allowing "export" level encryption, and although you still need to get a Commodities Jurisdiction, it's been done before so it shouldn't be too difficult. If they didn't use the "export" level SSL CipherTypes, then what're they up to? Are they fighting crypto export laws (for which they should be congratulated and supported) or are they just looking for free publicity? -- Eric Murray ericm@lne.com ericm@motorcycle.com http://www.lne.com/ericm PGP keyid:E03F65E5 fingerprint:50 B0 A2 4C 7D 86 FC 03 92 E8 AC E6 7E 27 29 AF