...it sounds like some place-name in Mordor: "Naagscab" I suppose it should name a sulfurous cave, or some other, um, foul hole... Thanks to Charles Evans for the pronunciation hint.

Microsoft has dropped the code name of its controversial security technology, Palladium, in favor of this buzzword- bloated tongue twister: "next-generation secure computing base".

Cheers, RAH Who liked "Palladiated", too... -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com