Though I've not seen much traffic here in cypherpunks on the new exportable version of RIPEM/SIG, I do think that its latest release is significant. RIPEM/SIG plus the new version of RSAREF is going to allow my firm to do some development on products that were not realizable with PGP (because of export controls, as well as licensing and patent issues.) For those of you who are also interested in the exportable RIPEM/SIG version 1.2a, the files are now available via anonymous ftp or by using Mosaic/World-Wide-Web. Unlike the binaries for RIPEM 1.2a, these files are available via anonymous ftp -- you don't need an account on the server to download the files (in order to get an account you have send an email message saying that you are an US or Canadian user.) The press release on RIPEM/SIG from Mark Riordan <mrr@scss3.cl.msu.edu> is at: ftp://ripem.msu.edu/pub/crypt/ripem/ripemsig/posting Binary files are at: ftp://ripem.msu.edu/pub/crypt/ripem/ripemsig/binaries/ ripemsig-68030-macintosh-commandline-1.2a.sit.hqx ftp://ripem.msu.edu/pub/crypt/ripem/ripemsig/binaries/ ripemsig-80x86-dos-vanilla-1.2a.exe ftp://ripem.msu.edu/pub/crypt/ripem/ripemsig/binaries/ ripemsig-hppa-hpux9.01-1.2a ftp://ripem.msu.edu/pub/crypt/ripem/ripemsig/binaries/ ripemsig-ibm-rs6000-aix3.2-1.2a ftp://ripem.msu.edu/pub/crypt/ripem/ripemsig/binaries/ ripemsig-sparc-sunos4.1.1-1.2a There does not seem to be separate documentation for RIPEM/SIG yet, so I guess you have to use the documentation for RIPEM 1.2a: ftp://ripem.msu.edu/pub/crypt/ripem/ripem.man ftp://ripem.msu.edu/pub/crypt/ripem/ripemusr.doc ftp://ripem.msu.edu/pub/crypt/ripem/ripemusr.txt A current list of RIPEM public keys is at: ftp://ripem.msu.edu/pub/crypt/ripem/pubkeys.txt The new RSAREF source code that RIPEM/SIG is based on was made available today the rsa.com server. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ..Christopher Allen Consensus Development Corporation.. ..<consensus@netcom.com> 4104-24th Street #419.. .. San Francisco, CA 94114-3615.. .. o415/647-6383 f415/647-6384.. ..Mosaic/World-Wide-Web Front Door: .. ..ftp://netcom7.netcom.com/pub/consensus/www/ConsensusFrontDoor.html ..