On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 02:56:00PM -0700, Keith Clayton wrote: > Maybe just increasingly concerned that our right-wing politicians are > going to attempt to pass laws restricting crypto further and make it > easier to intercept and read/listen to electronic communications. In > fact US senators have already proposed requiring backdoors in crypto for > law enforcement (senator from NH) as well as allowing for interception > of net traffic without warrant (Senator Feinstein as one of the > authors). Your characterization of it as a "right-wing" affinity is false. For instance, your example of Dianne Feinstein: she is widely known as a liberal, left-wing politician. I'm afraid assholes can exist on both sides. Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/