Recently a hollywood pair's home sex video was stolen, duped, and sold. This makes the mass market aware. You could sell video cameras that required a passphrase to play. This would be easier with pure digital recording cameras, which are the next generation of consumer vidcams. A fast stream cipher is easy in hardware, and there *will* be a market for it. You have no privacy if your bits are not encrypted when your space is violated, by feds or other criminals, but you want the convenience of a videocamera. (forward this idea to other lists/newsgroups as appropriate) ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig@otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Information is a dense, colorless, odorless material readily transmitted across empty space and arbitrary boundaries by shaking charged particles.