John Young wrote:

The AES Q&A notes that the technology will be used to protect non-classified government material. What cryptosystems are used to protect classified information -- that is, either with hardware implementation or with software only? Or are these methods themselves classified?

Yep, for the higher-classified material, anyway. And having said that, I'm going to have to weasel out. I don't remember what I can talk about and what's classified. Sorry for my bad memory. Ta, SRF, former Captain, MI, US Army -- Steve Furlong, Computer Condottiere Have GNU, will travel 518-374-4720 sfurlong@acmenet.net