Steve Davis Said:

There is still a void in the arena of free public encryption systems for regular human beings. It would be wonderful if somebody would put a reasonably secure package (much like PGP) and copyleft the source. PGP has never been a very useful tool to me as a programmer because of its internal structure. What I'd need, if I wanted to integrate this technology into new platforms such as voice communication or an encrypted file system, is a library of tools for shuffling this data around and piping it through the "magic" algorithms.

RSAREF is available, but you can't use it in commercial products. Also, it doesn't have many 'toys', although I can't really figure out what 'toys' are needed... If you don't need public-key algorithms (doesn't PKP claim patent rights on _all_ public key systems?), IDEA may be used for non-commercial purposes; IDEA is also fairly fast. ---> Dob -- Dan Odom danodom@matt.ksu.ksu.edu -- Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS PGP key by finger or request.