At 10:52 PM 6/28/96 -0400, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:

Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 28-Jun-96 News: NEC has encrypted net.. by Ernest Hua@XENON.chromat

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Japanese companies catching up and passing American companies should scare those Congressional critters into action:

Realistically, there's not a chance in hell Pro-CODE will pass this session. -Declan

Which reminds me... About that NTT chip: While I haven't been looking particularly carefully for it, I haven't noticed an announcement in any of the electronics magazines I normally read. Has anyone seen a reference to it? I think we ought to learn more about it: Does it implement an open standard, so that other manufacturers can build compatible phones? Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com