Number 2. People on this list have said that she's an expert in cryptography. When I read that damned Newsday article posted on cypherpunks, I thought that she was just a whiny college bitch. The argument was just very, well, flimsy is the word I guess. I believe that Clipper is wrong, but someone could at least write a paper that would influence more by pointing out its merits, rather than just saying that the government should start spying on all of us to stop drug deals.... Anyone know: A) Is she an expert in cryptography? B) Is she a college graduate? Dr. Denning is the head of the computer science department at Georgetown. She's the author of ``Cryptography and Data Security'', a classic (though now somewhat-dated) work in the field. In sort -- though she may be politically naive, and she obviously puts a different weight on personal liberty than do most of the people on this list -- she can't be accused of technical incompetence. There is no doubt that she knows more -- and perhaps far more -- about cryptography per se than do most of the people on this list. And of course, you don't want to put cryptographic details in an Op-Ed column in a tabloid newspaper; most of the audience won't understand them.