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..As will the phrase, "cryptography is like a gun...." Joe User won't see authentication as "like a gun" any more than his telephone is "like a gun."

It is part of the cultural folklore to believe that "The pen is mightier than the sword" Ciao jfa Jean-Francois Avon, Pierrefonds(Montreal) QC Canada JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers Instrumentation & control, LabView programming. PGP keys: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon and: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C