Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > i was just blew away by this: > "What almost all commentators have missed is > that hidden away in the small print (and subsequently confirmed by our > specific query) is that if you want to be FIPS 140-2 compliant you MUST > use the compromised points." I'm a complete innocent in this area, but is it necessary to be "FIPS 140-2 compliant" if you are not dealing the US (or other?) government? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland