John Young wrote: | The key recovery alliance has more than tripled its membership | and identified its charter objectives. | + promoting interoperability between different key recovery and | non-key recovery solutions Isn't this in direct conflict with one of NIST's criteria? | + defining a commercial infrastructure for worldwide development | of strong encryption | | + maximizing security for business Isn't this in direct conflict with the FBI's criteria? ;) | To facilitate meeting these and other objectives, the alliance | identified a series of working committees targeted to meet within | the next 60 days. Soon after this 60-day period, the now | 40-member alliance will re-convene to mark the progress of these | committees and to identify future benchmarks and deliverables. Did they identify the committees, or announce that they will exist? Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume