PGP-RSAREF negotiations are plodding along with J. Berman of EFF as an intermediary. The developers are unsure of the reasons for the slow pace. J. Bidzos is supposed to make a major public announcement on this avenue very soon.

This is good news. I believe I've managed to overcome the legal obstacles to RSAREF+GNU MP. This is of interest because PGP+RSAREF+GNU MP is actually considerably faster than PGP on a number of platforms (at least Sun Sparc, IBM RS6000, 80486 Linux). Mark (for those who are interested, overcoming the obstacles involved my writing a public domain implementation of a subset of the functionality of libgmp with the same interface. The subset is, in fact, pretty much what you want to do RSA, LUC &c. My free code is slower than GNU gmp, but it is functional. For more details, see the last few weeks of gnu.misc.discuss). -- Mark Henderson markh@wimsey.bc.ca (personal account) RIPEM key available by key server/finger/E-mail MD5OfPublicKey: F1F5F0C3984CBEAF3889ADAFA2437433