There were a few sentences truncated in what I posted yesterday, due to mistakes on my part. Here's the corrections. John ... The Administration policy for 40-bit-key encryption will continue as-is, and no keys will have to be escrowed for such systems. Mr. Nelson said that the government's main concern is that strong encryption products not be available in the mass market. ... bi-lateral agreements with friendly nations. In a presentation, Bob Holleyman of the Business Software Alliance criticized the Administration's failure to "liberalize export controls on generally available software employing non-key escrow encryption." Also, he stated that the Administration's proposal and the draft criteria "continue to reflect a misunderstanding of the market place and, if implemented in anything like their current form, will prevent key escrow encryption from ever being commercially adopted." Mr. Holleyman recommended a number of features for a marketable system, including a variety of encryption algorithms using at least 64-bit keys and user specification of a key holder.