From: John Young [................]These technologists, who planned to release their findings in a news release on Thursday, argue that the best way to insure that the strongest security codes are developed is to conduct the work in a public forum. And so they are sharply critical of the current industry standard setting process which has made a trade secret of the underlying mathematical formulas used to create the security codes. ...................................... It becomes apparent that some people have the ideas of "private" and "public" backwards - they do in secret what should be done openly while supporting the license to access what should be private matters. .. Blanc