There's a transcript of today's White House press conference on the new US encryption policy at: http://jya.com/vp091698.htm VP Gore, Justice, FBI, DoD, NSA, CIA, BXA and cooperating industry were there explaining the way it's supposed to satisfy all interests of the agencies and a few good businesses if not the citizenry. Domestic crypto restrictions? Well, take a look at how that was punted. And what the FBI is setting up to see that law enforcement needs are met, and what DoD is planning for surveilling the globe, strong crypto or not. Not a word about backdoors, TA, DIRT, keyboard snooping, covert chip features, compromising emanations, national technical means, just assurances that the plan satisfies the interests of the protectors.