What were you doing on 9/11? I was in the act of packaging our first build of GnuPG for the Distribution when the planes hit. It took me a couple of days to clear my head abit and write the GNU-Darwin encryption position paper. When a drumbeat for post-9/11 encryption bans started in the US Congress the very day after the attack, I wrote faster and got help from smart people on the "Free Dmitry" list and elsewhere. Any remarks about any of this? http://www.gnu-darwin.org/war.html IMHO, it is exactly this kind of commentary which scuttled an attack on free encryption software in the wake of the attack. Moreover, the monolith authentication schemes were also laid to rest or driven underground, despite the fact that certain profiteering vendor/stakeholders had inside access in Washington. It might have been a very different Internet today. Most of the commentary about the paper has been positive, except for some criticism of pursuing private keys with warrants. Gosh, I think my head was not as clear as I thought on that point, a fact that time and experience has fortunately remedied. ;-} Anyway, all comments welcome. Regards, proclus http://www.gnu-darwin.org/ -- Visit proclus realm! http://proclus.tripod.com/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GMU/S d+@ s: a+ C++++ UBOULI++++$ P+ L+++(++++) E--- W++ N- !o K- w--- !O M++@ V-- PS+++ PE Y+ PGP-- t+++(+) 5+++ X+ R tv-(--)@ b !DI D- G e++++ h--- r+++ y++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type APPLICATION/pgp-signature]