-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Nice questions, John. To bring executive-branch accountability to a level more closely approaching absolute zero, the FBI might want a FOIA backlog of +8 years instead of "only" 5, but from what little I know of FOIA; its exceptions, combined with a hostile judiciary (led by Justice Scalia) are swallowing most of it anyway, as embarrassment _obviously_ hurts vital U.S. National Security Interests...[Note: IANAL, and I *am* a bit sarcastic!] I wonder, and perhaps my kind friend Hadmut can help me here, if there is an English translation of any and all Nazi-era German laws/regs regarding cryptography. As I [dimly] recall, Enigma was born as a private enterprise and the patent was only later taken over by government and classified after it was offered for sale to businesses (without much luck). These laws, if they exist, might make for interesting reading in side-by-side comparison with either Sen. Grassley's latest proposals, or with anything regarding cryptography coming from our paranoid FBI director. JMR -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Freedom isn't Freeh iQCVAwUBMB7vC21lp8bpvW01AQE9WQP7BxH6fBTRyxLX3Sw46oYSCbTHKukVC5Hc Z9nNSC35bazNa5QBCnr7pZjFUBmGXTzs4/NE2uyPbp34d3ojVJrgta9n+y8DX5uD yY4oMignyHGMPscac8OEkUmN+5T5gG1UKYpWv80Qt8sGfpyw3HCHOyE2YYFjpZ1y X+/ZDHvogj8= =dJ3T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Regards, Jim Ray "The people will again respect the law when the law again respects the will of the people." Jim Ray, Campaign '92 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PGP key Fingerprint 51 5D A2 C3 92 2C 56 BE 53 2D 9C A1 B3 50 C9 C8 Key id. # E9BD6D35 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Support the Phil Zimmermann (Author of PGP) Legal Defense Fund! email: zldf@clark.net or visit http://www.netresponse.com/zldf ________________________________________________________________________