At 14:49 1/24/96, Alex Strasheim wrote:

Big companies like Netscape, Sun, Microsoft, and IBM/Lotus, on the other hand, will almost certainly achieve their objectives if they win the political fight. They'll make buckets of money selling crypto software abroad. And if they lose the fight, they're going to be handing big opportunities to foreign competitors.

The big companies are fighting? Where did you get that idea? IBM/Lotus just gave the feds the keys. Not a single one of the major players has challenged the government in any meaningful way. Sure, they make a lot of noise as to how they dislike the regulations, but they certainly aren't making a sincere effort of trying to change them. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.