For those who believe "the NSA can do ANYTHING" or some such, an article in the New York Times claims the annual black budget now seems to be hovering around $28 Billion per year, for ALL secret government work. All the spy planes, CIA bribes, etc, come out of that pool. Its a lot of money, but not enough to pay for really outlandish things, like disk drives the size of Seattle to store exhaustive listings of all possible DES encryptions. Perry