Attendees of a meeting convened by the United Nations confirmed that while central banking and telecommunications systems in many countries are making progress toward Y2K compliance, many other necessary systems still need help. Those include electrical power systems, global shipping systems, the linkages between telecommunications systems, and SWIFT, a system for exchanging financial information. The U.N. meeting was the first time top Y2K officials were brought together. "One of the goals of this meeting is to identify the senior executives who are dealing with the problem," says the chairman of the U.S. President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion. "We want the delegates to go home with a knowledge of faces and with agreements on going forward. We don't have time to go through normal diplomatic channels." More than 100 officials attended the meeting. (TechWeb 14 Dec 98) #!/usr/local/bin/perl -0777-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RC4-3-lines-PERL @k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_ ]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256; &S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}