I believe that any denial-of-service attack will simply drive up the costs of licensing encryption programs and keys to the point that only corporations will be able to afford to release encryption products and purchase keys (in bulk). Remember, we have to pay them for the

privelidge

(not right) of communicating "securely".

If domestic GAK is mandated, my recommendation to my employer will be to not transmit anything via the Internet that we wouldn't want on the cover of The New York Times (or EE Times). As a U.S. subsidiary of a foreign corporation, I would not be surprised if our communications were decrypted and the contents passed along to our U.S. competitors if domestic GAK is mandated. (Can you say, "industrial espionage"? I knew you could.) ========================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN "Their walls are built of cannon balls, their motto is 'Don't Tread on Me'"