24-research-Encryption,cont. The other side of the debate is typified by privacy advocates and e-commerce interests who feel that the Govt.wants to expand,not just preserve,its ability to eavesdrop.They believe that fledging mediums like the Internet will never become economically viable if the people using it don't feel that their privacy is protected and their data is secure.There are also concerns about the potential for Govt.abuse of any kind of key recovery program,or that the key recovery program would itself be insecure,incomplete and the target of infiltration and hacking.There is an international aspect to encryption as well,for any artificial stricture on the complexity of encryption software,(so that the Govt.can still break it should it want to.)or which reduces its security,(by placing copies of keys in some sort of escrow account.)ultimately devalues the software and leaves other countries without such restrictions to devalop industry standards and much better products.There is also the question as to whether the kind of messages the Govt.wishes to intercept and decode would ever be transmitted on a system which belonged to the key recovery program.If other non-recoverable systems were still available to criminals. http://www.fox.com/24/research.html