NetScape might not hawg the glory, but Bully Billy will trumpet to the world that HE devised the means, HE directed the breakers, and MicroSlop is the "benevolent" [read greedy, vicious, corrupt, threatening predator] organization which "pulled freedom loving Americans clear from the *very* mouth the the beast."

Considering the situation -- considering that RSA has even signed on to this scheme -- I'd have to say that I don't give a rat's ass what Bill Gates claims. If Micro$oft bucks the system, I'll gladly applaud their stand. The situation is not good at all. Cracking DES (whether distributed or through a hardware crack, or both!) seems critical at this point. me -------------------------------------------------------------- Omegaman <mailto:omega@bigeasy.com> PGP Key fingerprint = 6D 31 C3 00 77 8C D1 C2 59 0A 01 E3 AF 81 94 63 Send a message with the text "get key" in the "Subject:" field to get a copy of my public key. --------------------------------------------------------------