Senator John McCain ends support of key escrow, joins Senators Burns, Leahy and Wyden in sponsoring liberalization legislation. This could be a major reversal for the anti-crypto forces -- Senator McCain was a big obstacle to crypto export deregulation in the past. NY Times URL: http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/biztech/articles/02encrypt.html Remember you can use "cypherpunks/cypherpunks" as a login and password on the NY Times site. If anyone knows of a non-restricted URL with details on this, please post it. Perry