Peter Cassidy, an esteemed subscriber here, is the Wired author Tim notes, who reports on the Bernstein case in the June issue. A well-written piece with several thought-provokings in addition to those cited by Tim. Peter writes of Judge Marilyn Hall Patel on the Bernstein case: "Before the case is resolved, Patel's skepticism of the state's perogatives will be tested to the limit when the government is called upon to defend its policy. Patel is then likely to be given the *in camera* presentation of The Deepest Darkest Secrets of Cryptography -- probably a modified version of the classifed briefing the NSA has used with great success to influence members of Congress. Legend has it that no one who ever got 'the briefing' ever again opposed the agency." Peter, anyone, are these welcome-to-the-inner-circle briefings always by NDA, or worse threat? Wonder if a public-spirited cryptographer is working on a book for a movie about this heart of the deepest darkness?