It's people like this that make me seriously rethink my anti-gun regulation stance. -uni- (Dark) why what ever do you mean? i think all american's should not have guns or crypto. it would make for a safer society in that the government could make sure there would be no more crime or pesky drug dealers using cyfered messages to transmit their buy and sell orders on international email. right-on ban crypto. of course the way this group is going nobody outside of the internet clique will ever get there hands on pgp or other crypto software. i tried to find pgp on local bbs's in phoenix and had to call 8 of them before i found 1 downloadable zip. the average users do not even know it is available. thru ignorance of the bulk of the populace you will fail in your crypto efforts. that is a shame too. you, and your group may know all there is about crypto and may write the best crypto programs ever written. butttttttttt......... without everyday clueless non-internet/ftp/pgp familiar users, crypto is pointless. the power is in distribution. and distribution breeds familiarity and contempt for the governments brand of escrowed key system. given the choice of one item in a resturant you only eat what is served to you. with multiple items you choose the best. face it, if crypto is outlawed it is too easy to clean out the net so to speak. if nothing is agressivly distributed then the people will not have it. if the people do not have it why waste your time writing it. if it is made illegal you will be an outlaw. if you have distributed in major cities before hand then at least the public has and will have access. -- * Spelling errors are intentional and international * Jim Nalbandian netcomsv!lassie!jim%lassie@netcom.com Tempe, Arizona, USA N7SZS@K7BUC.AZ.US.NA No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain there right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government. <-------- Thomas Jefferson --