On avoiding use of commercial encryption products: In a session yesterday with a group of Japanese visiting the US to gather information on security products and export controls, a Westerner advised the group to avoid all commercial security products in any country, domestic or exportables, due to probability of being compromised. It was suggested instead to arrange a private service with a banking institution to covertly ride financial transactions, inland and external. Better was to arrange the same through military or governmental channels. Fees were claimed to be fairly reasonable depending on whether protection against national courts and counter-intelligence was needed at either origin or destination points. It was emphasized that these practices are now normal in countries where strongest info security was required for national economic protection against commercial and intelligence espionage, and that no one knowledgeable in the field would rely on commercial products from any source. The Western briefers were not identifed.