Stewart used to be General Counsel for NSA. He retired to move into private law practice with Steptoe & Johnson. He has a variety of short papers on encryption, network law & policy available on his law firm's web site, http://www.us.net/~steptoe/. My favorite was his summary report on the OECD meeting in December, ~steptoe/286908.htm, at which the US tried to parade some of the fruits of its behind-the-scenes efforts to convince other governments to become as authoritarian as the US government on crypto policy. If the US government can quietly convince other countries to support Clipper-like systems (including "mandatory key escrow" and "trusted third parties") then they can say, "See, this is a real problem -- all these other countries are having to deal with it too." Of course, if their covert US efforts to stir these people up become widely known, the technique will have less impact. The US government's efforts have failed to convince citizens and industry that there's a problem, when they won't tell us what the problem is but assure us that it's a really big problem. Our own government is now colluding with other governments -- against us and their own citizens -- in a joint attempt to attempt to rob the ordinary people of the world of our rights to privacy, free speech, and free assembly. It would be interesting to see notes from other participants in the same OECD meeting(s). Another 1-hour meeting was scheduled in Canberra on Feb 9. Anyone know what happened there? John Gilmore -- Love your country but never trust its government. -- from a hand-painted road sign in central Pennsylvania