Compuserve Online Today Daily Edition, 15 June 1996:

Speaking to the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, Reno said her plan would require people to register with the new agency the secret codes -- or "keys" -- they use to encrypt messages online.

Reporting on this speech, Sandra Ann Harris of United Press International adds, "Federal authorities could then obtain the information they need to decipher the encryptions using a court order and secretly monitor electronic communication on the Internet the same way wiretaps are used to monitor telephone conversations of suspected criminals."

Consider the logic of this statement. If some *criminal* has registered his/her secret key with the government, then why the hell would s/he then encrypt an incrimating message knowing the government could crack it?! Great plan, Janet..... Medea