These chips look *very* promising. Who needs Clipper, or HP's Clipper-under-another-name, when you can get triple DES from the free world at prices like this? The critical thing is to get the horse out of the barn before the door is barred. Each and every one of these sorts of vendors has to establish use and distribution on a wide basis before governments of any stripe start locking down on domestic use. There is little time and, yes, I am a paranoid who hopes thereby to survive. --dan