John Young wrote: | U.S. State Dept Press Briefing today: | | Briefer: James Rubin | | Now, I have a piece of show-and-tell for you, which I do rarely around | here. But I thought this was interesting enough, even for you cynical | and jaded journalists. This is a secure cell phone. Lieutenant General | Kenneth Minihan, Director of the National Security Agency, presented | Secretary Albright with a bank of Motorola Cipher-Tac 2000 security | modules to provide secure cellular communications. http://www.mot.com/GSS/SSTG/ISD/Secure_Telecom/CipherTAC_2000.html Its a STU-III, operating at 4.8kbps. Which means that you lose the shit sound of a normal cell phone, only to be replaced by the shit sound of a 4800bit codec. It is *not* recoverable encryption, because as the NSA and State both know, there are security risks there. And we all know that our country's most valuable secrets are transmitted by people like Madeline Albright, and thus deserve better protection than can be offered by recoverable systems. Adam -- Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals.