Speaking of DDJ's nice crypto articles for April 94, I just had a truly weird thing arrive in the mail today. It was a plastic mailer bag from DDJ which contained Vol 1., Issue 1. of DDJ's Developer Update. The plastic envelope was larger than needed for such a mailing. All the bag contains is the 8 page Dev. Update issue and a card with my name and the return address for the snail mail folks to be able to process the package. There was NOT any April 94 issue of DDJ. Have I been ripped, or did DDJ goof, or was this mailing supposed to contain only the 8 page thinggie??? If anyone receives their DDJ April 94 issue >ALONG< with the developer update, please let me know so I can bitch. :-) If anyone received the same package without the DDJ issue, I ask that you also let me know so that I silence myself patiently for the DDJ April 94 issue. :-) However, one nice thing is that one of the aside boxes at the left side of the 8 page thinggie has "Crypto Chip Debuts." This is on the cover under News Briefs. Okay, it's small, I'll type it: "National Semiconductor has released the iPower encryption chip which is designed for use in PCMCIA cards and provides a range of security features. The chip can encrypt via multiple encryption algorithms (none listed) and will self destruct upon any tampering attempt, using a self contained chemical. Cards that use the iPower chip can also provide additional functions such as tracking users access times. The iPower division is based is (sic) Santa Clara, CA 408-721-8797." #include <std_ copyright_disclaimer, etc. for Dr. Dobbs.>