reading notes on the recent RSA conference reminds me of something. Lotus announced their 64 bit encryption for foreign users some months ago, with 24 bits secretly "owned" by the NSA. there was some speculation here about how this was handled. could the system be so insecure as to have a unique 24 bits used across every foreign key? or are those 24 bits somehow algorithmically determined from the other 40 bits, with the algorithm a secret? in any case it seems that reverse engineering of Lotus Notes would provide the answer, and we'd be able to embarrass both NSA and Lotus (who imho deserves it, for caving in to the NSA) all in the same sweep by revealing it to the world!!! I would bet this would be worth some more NYT or WSJ almost-front-page ink for some lucky cpunks if someone can pull this off!! this would be a *major* new feather in the cpunk cap, and I'd enthusiastically support anyone attempting to work on this project (maybe writing HTML pages for information or something). cypherpunks, start your disassemblers!!