Clinton Proposes Initiatives On the Scrambling of Data {} The insistence of the Administration on moving forward on key-escrow technology appears to ignore the advice of a May report by the National Research Council, which recommended going more slowly on key escrow because the technology had not yet been proved feasible.

Administration officials said yesterday, however, that they were better informed than the council's members realized.

"We're further down the road on key-escrow technology than the N.R.C. is familiar with," said Greg Simon, Vice President Al Gore's chief domestic policy adviser.

As I recall the NRC members in DC said, in *EXPLICITLY* rejecting the "If only you know what we know..." mantra, that if there was something the [NRC] did not know, it wasn't cuz that had not asked everyone involved. (Or words to that effect) So it appears the Admin was withholding data from the Congress.... I have here in front of me, documented proof that there are crypto-carrying members of the Cypherpunk Party... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433