Monday 3/9/98 6:17 PM merata@pearl.sums.ac.ir lawya@lucs-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk sjmz@hplb.hpl.hp.com Guys I just read a printed copy I made of Crypto AG: The NSA's Trojan Whore? http://caq.com/CAQ/caq63/caq63madsen.html starting at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ fairly carefully. I seized upon Madsens statements, 1 the random encryption key could be automatically and clandestinely transmitted with the enciphered message. 2 they may also have been tipped off by Stasi files of the ex-East German regime that found their way to Iran Try MfS agents who went to work for Iran after the Cold War. Then there was the postcard from Tel Aviv I received at Sandia labs which followed-up a yellow piece of paper sent by snail mail asking numbered detailed question about work I was doing at Sandia. I responded back to the postcard, by postcard of course, Know any sayanim? No response. It doesn't take at rocket scientist to figure that one out. Lets all hope for settlement of this unfortunate matter so that we can all move on to more constructive projects. Best bill