From the July 11 _Fortune_ magazine, in an article about "25 cool companies":

The battle over how to ensure the privacy and security of communication in cyberspace pits the spy masters at the National Security Agency, with thousands of people and a budget said to be in excess of $10 billion a year, against a small, privately held California company. Nearly everyone in Silicon Valley seems to be rooting for the little guy. RSA is a darling of libertarian hackers because it sells a way to keep digital exchanges indecipherable by unwanted eyes, including those of Big Brother. . . . Multiple authors, the RSA piece was by Alan Deutschman (deutschman@aol.com). Interesting blurb, two quotes from Jim@RSA. The article also covers Mosaic Communications, Enterprise Integration Technologies, McAfee Assoc., Cisco Systems, Infosafe, Scientific Computing Assoc., Security Dynamics, & others. On another subject, does RIPEM interoperate with PGP or other public key software? I have version 1.0.5 for DOS. Thanks for any replies. ponder@freenet.scri.fsu.edu