re new encryption algorithm well actually this one s easy it s their job the nsa is supposed to develop cryptosystems if the government chooses to go ahead and sell those cryptosystems to the masses so be it ah but developing cryptosystems which are specificially designed to protect the government s domestic spying capabilities takes them beyond that mandate into the forbidden field of domestic wiretapping the nsa s charter forbids them from doing any purely domestic intelligence work i would think that even providing assistance in development of the skipjack algorithom is a violation of that charter but as with any intrenched government agency they will do what they think is expedent jeff hupp internet jhupp shockwave win net medowglen apt ad contract programming novell houston texas network design and support voice the best govenment doesn t me
