Mr. Freeh, testifying at Thursday's hearing in favor of an optional key escrow plan, noted that the point is not to prevent all copies of uncrackable code from going abroad -- that's clearly impossible -- but to prevent such high-level code from becoming the international standard, with architecture and transmission channels all unreadable to world authorities. Looks like the fibbies (FBI) haven't been reading the "Proceedings of the IETF". Strong crypto is already an international standard. DCF