EFF has made available the full file of public comments that were submitted to NIST through the "cryptnow@eff.org" service. I found this great quote in there: However, if this standard is adopted, we at least have the opportunity to reduce our dependence on imported oil substantially. All we need do is hook up generators to the bones of the authors of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I estimate their rotational speed at 2000 RPM now and rising rapidly. Sincerely yours, Richard B. Mott Ringoes, New Jersey The comments are in ftp.eff.org:/pub/crypto/EES_FIPS_Comments.txt . -- John Gilmore gnu@toad.com -- gnu@cygnus.com -- gnu@eff.org ``This committee has not tried to determine whether the National Security Agency tendency to advance exaggerated claims of authority ... stems from conscious policy or the actions of individual NSA employees.'' The Government's Classification of Private Ideas, House Report 96-1540, p. 67