1.   The Leahy-Goodlatte Bills proposed easing export controls on encryption software to satisfy industry and civil libertarians.

2.   Already, the administration is at odds with civil libertarians and the computer industry because of federal limits on the export of encryption software.

3.   Another law, adopted quietly last fall, requires all those who use encryption software to register with the government by next Monday.

4.   At least some of the suspected child pornographers had used data encryption software, Freeh said Thursday in remarks at an International Cryptography Institute conference in Washington, D.C.

5.   At the same time, he says, the dangers of allowing criminals and terrorists access to unbreakable encryption software are particularly high.

6.   Bernstein said Tuesday he plans to post the encryption software on the Internet sometime in the next week.

7.   Bogin, a junior at Xavier University in New Orleans, is helping write new data encryption software for the Palm Pilot handheld device that would improve e-mail security.

8.   A federal judge in San Francisco indicated yesterday that she will uphold her previous ruling that export controls on encryption software are unconstitutional because they violate free speech.

9.   A little-known computer security firm is acquiring the best-known maker of data encryption software.

10.   A spokeswoman for Goodlatte said the amendment maintains the current policy, which makes it extremely difficult for American firms to export their best encryption software.