The latest Microprocessor Reports have an article on WaveMeter, an Nat'l Semi spinoff. It is basically a smartcard chip, which uses DES to handle decryption and keep its credit balance secure. The idea is that you establish credit with a server, over a modem somehow. Then, you can decrypt the data on a CDROM, which will cost you some of this digital credit. When your credit balance goes to 0, you can call the server, and withdraw more digital money. It also, at that time, sends info about which files have been decrypted, so the owners of that data can be credited. Also, the newest issue of Government Computing, or something like that, has an article on the IRS, which is strongly thinking of using RSA for authentication. This is primarily because they need something right now, and they can't wait for the controversy surrounding the NIST DSS standard to settle down. ************************************************** * Allen J. Baum tel. (408)974-3385 * * Apple Computer, MS/305-3B * * 1 Infinite Loop * * Cupertino, CA 95014 baum@apple.com * **************************************************