I just read the new and improved Dorothy Denning essay at http://www.cosc.georgetown.edu/crypto/Future.html and I must say that I am impressed to see that our august little group has managed to define most of the issues Dr. Denning addresses. She even uses the Gospel According to Tim as her first bibliography entry. One should realize, of course, that whether Crypto Anarchy prevails depends not upon the varied philosophical leanings of citizen-units May and Denning, but rather upon whether our mathematics is more powerful than their jackbooted thugs. Success also depends upon the implementation of widely distributed comunications systems which are not vulnerable to attacks launched against any particular set of nodes, and which obfuscate which processing elements are responsible for providing any specified instance of a service. Crypto Anarchy running on the World Wide Crypto-Mesh. Your guarantee of a government-free future, Denning and friends notwithstanding. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ mpd@netcom.com $ via Finger. $