Dave, For the purposes of discussion,
(1) Why should I care whether "Iran or China" sign up? (2) Who should hold the keys instead of the only powerful military under democratic control? (a) The utterly porous United Nations? (b) The members of this mailing list, channeling for the late, lamented Jon Postel? (c) The Identrus bank consortium ("we have your money, why not your keys?") in all its threshhold crypto glory? (d) The International Telecommunication Union? (e) Other: _____________________________ Hoping for a risk-analytic model rather than an all-countries-are-created-equal position statement. --dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]